Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked for the CIA and the Office of Naval Intelligence, running networks of foreign agents and helping set up covert operations. When he left Government service, he teamed up with another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge in a seaside villa in Tripoli, beyond the reach of frustrated U.S. authorities. But last week he got careless, and federal agents managed to ensnare...
...wartime experiences whenever he hears a loud noise adds suspense and humanity to the film. By the time a spy ring of Jewish Russian dissidents are inserting him into the top-secret complex where Firefox has been developed, one is well and truly ensnared in the plot's web...
...sailing." To spend time along the wall in the Philadelphia Museum where Eakins' major paintings and drawings of rowers and shells are hung is, eventually, to see what he meant. The perspective setups have the gratuitous complexity of Uccello and the modernity of Sol LeWitt; their geometrical, measured web of lines turns, slowly and inevitably, into the observed structure of water surfaces, the arrowing interpenetrations of ripples, the striations, and the delicate punctuation of water droplets in light. "There is so much beauty in reflections," Eakins wrote, "that it is generally well worth while to try to get them...
...task makes them a trifle selfabsorbed. "The world is a seamless web," Susan declares at one point, which means that telling the story of how they met forces them to start all the way back at the Big Bang. A corollary of this notion troubles Susan: "We don't believe that Harry Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency for the sake of this story, do we?" Fenwick does not answer...
...works for a while, as Martin weaves his own plot-web into the 18 old movies, but pretty soon he's traveling on old good will and flop sweat. I'll say this: he travels in good company. Rachel Ward, his femme fatale in this activity, has taunting cheekbones, eyes like veiled promises and a body that speaks in languages not yet discovered. Miss Ward, just because I have to collar your pal for creative fraud is no reason we can't be friends. My number's in the book. The name is Marlowe. -By Richard...