Word: turncoat
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...Bean will use real bullets in the filming. The Cockney crew members, led by the gaffer, threaten a workers' revolt against Bean-cum-Washington, but they hold together to film the British charge up Bunker Hill--hilariously staged, dummies and all. But they can't hold out, and the turncoat Wes, convinced that "Washington" will be a disaster, finally stops the action with the help of some redcoat extras. John Bean is accidentally bayonetted by his gaffer, and as he dies the directorship is passed on to blue-eyed, mindless Dan, squinting bravely into the spotlight...
Justice Department officials contend that Barnett was not arrested or exposed earlier because the CIA hoped to turn him into a triple agent. Intelligence experts scoff at this argument on the ground that the KGB would never trust a turncoat agent with any Soviet secrets. Another theory is that rehiring Barnett was simply an administrative goof. When it was discovered, officials decided that the best strategy was to play for time until it was decided how to handle his case with the least amount of damaging publicity. Whatever the truth, the Justice Department promises to shed at least some light...
...both writers like Raymond Chandler and film makers like Sam Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...
John Connally, 60, the Democratic convert who is trying to overcome Republican stalwarts' distrust of him as a turncoat, lately by heading a drive to raise $1.5 million to buy the G.O.P. national headquarters building in Washington. Taking a page from Reagan's book, he has also formed the John Connally Citizens Forum to raise funds for Republican candidates in 1978, and for the 80 or so politicking trips he plans on their behalf. Though charming and forceful, he could be hurt by his past alliances with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and by his indictment-though...
David Clem is a walking anomaly. He's also an incumbent city councilor. The independents say he's a liberal, Brattle St. type; the Cambridge Convention people call him a turncoat, a man who betrayed those who supported them in 1975 in favor of the anti-rent control interests...