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Another bizarre twist to the unsavory case was the announcement by officers of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co., of which Donovan served as an executive vice president in charge of labor relations, that it had hired private detectives to do its own investigation of people who have raised allegations against Donovan. These, presumably, would include FBI informers, the members and staff of the Hatch committee, and perhaps even Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who was appointed in December to look into the charges raised against Donovan. Theodore Geiser, a Schiavone attorney, said that the company's gumshoes were...
...unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture. For a production that means to bring children back to the movies, dragging their parents with them, Annie has a dark, dour, meanspirited tone-Oliver Twist as retold by Fagin...
...team stormed Detroit's Frederick and Herrud pork-processing plant, hauling off 33 workers. There, the bad feelings that greeted the agents everywhere across the U.S. took a comic twist when two gun-toting INS men rushed through a door into a holding area only to be charged by a herd of angry hogs. The terrified officers escaped by swinging across the rafters, Tarzan-style. None of the 33 arrested were illegal aliens...
...depth of even the most textbook "liberated" characters. In Life Before Man, the novel before Bodily Harm, for instance. Lesje, one of three narrators who form a triangle, holds a paleontology job at a Toronto museum. She works there passionately, betraying encyclopedic knowledge, weaving elaborate Cretaceous fantasies Atwood's twist makes the job consist in large measure of classifying, cleaning and filing innumerable Jurassic fish earbones...
Watson's coach, John Walker, said the competition was "fabulous--he had to hit everything." Walker raved about Watson's best dive, a back one-and-a-half somersault with a two-and-one-half twist, calling it a "typical Dan Watson back twister--it was excellent...