Word: underworlders
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Burden of Proof. There would still be multitudinous exceptions, notably bona fide security secrets, Government-employee records, geophysical data that could be used for commercial advantage, and FBI investigative manuals, which would be of compelling interest to the underworld. Moreover, the new law would support the tradition of "executive privilege," by which the President has the final right to withhold any information. Nor does it apply to Congress, itself one of Washington's most notorious practitioners of secrecy...
...homage to his talent. She has also included the fragment of a serious novel, undertaken late in Hammett's life and never published before. There is just enough of it to suggest that the author did his creative spirit a disservice in confining it to literature's underworld...
...would question that TIME'S story was as factual, unbiased, fair, objective, truthful, unopinionated and impartial as any brief uttered by the mouthpieces and stooges for underworld characters. Even so, I'll bet some of the writer's best friends are policemen...
...Extremely Vulnerable." All the while, the Mounties said, Gerda was "very actively engaged as a common prostitute" in Montreal and, as such, associated with members of Montreal's underworld. When Gerda's citizenship was finally turned down, she returned to West Germany. But before leaving she went on a buying spree, scattering rubber checks all over Montreal. When they bounced her into jail, Gerda threatened the cops with Sevigny's name, and was free the next...
Cloportes is French for lice-and slang for the killers, con men, pimps, prostitutes and safecrackers of the Paris underworld. The movie begins with a comically bumbled robbery, and continues on the strength of its fallout. A rough-hewn racketeer (Lino Ventura) goes to prison for the job, hating himself almost as much as he hates the doublecrossing colleagues who have ruined his pursuit of beaux-arts - to lease a blowtorch for the caper, he was forced to sell one of his stolen Braques. His time served, the former art collector returns to Paris and starts turning over rocks, bent...