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...with titles like the Tortuga Transfer or Midnight in Morocco. It's the stuff of a million Paramount pictures--drop-points, bills in large denominations, an underworld contact nicknamed El Serpiente, a bartender named Alfonso. The protagonist, Franz Hall, like most heroes of pulp thrillers, has a past to undo. Attracted more by the suicidal romance of risk than by the money he stands to make, he has wandered to Port Tropique in an existential daze, and becomes a go-between for ivory smugglers in an unnamed Latin American country under revolutionary siege. It's classic stuff. He spends...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Port of Call | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

...people do not place undo emphasis on sex. Homosexuals are differentiated as a group by their sexual habits. Unfortunately, this fosters the impression that they are oversexed or sexually perverted, sado-masochists, or child molesters...

Author: By Nathan S. Szanton, | Title: When Your Best Friend Tells You He's Gay | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...think I have always been well aware of the enormity of it, the difficulties, the fact that you cannot undo in a minute and a half what it has taken quite a long time to build up. I suppose if there is anything that has changed at all, it has been the deterioration of the economy, which makes the problem even more acute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Ronald Reagan | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...scheme has a certain charm. He writes his memoirs, mailing them back o headquarters-and to the Soviets, the Chinese and anyone else who might be professionally interested. The agency falls all over itself trying to apprehend him before the final revelations can undo its secret activities completely. But aided by a once and present lover (Glenda Jackson), Matthau leads a mostly merry chase through much of the free world, keeping one jump ahead of his CIA pursuers until a happy, tricky ending is achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sly Spy | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...last night I did what they expected--cast my ballot for an open convention--against the advice of those who contend that "unbinding" the delegates would undo 12 years of reform efforts, against my own initial misgivings, and despite the probability that I risked attaching my self to a losing cause. What motivated me, however, was not blind loyalty to Kennedy as much as an instinctive rebelliousness against tying my own hands and wielding a club over my own head--and doing the same to all future delegates...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Garden: Inside and Out | 8/12/1980 | See Source »

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