Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MISSISSIPPI BURNING Historical fact, the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964, triggers a fervent historical fiction. Gene Hackman is canny and powerful as an FBI agent tracking the killers in director Alan Parker's angry, headlong film...
Bobby Beathard remade our team with low draft picks and free agent no-names, letting their performances dictate their saleries...
...colleges, he padded his resume with a fake degree from UCLA and landed a job as a mail- room clerk at the William Morris talent agency. (He still faults the company for requiring that credential for a low-level job.) Moving up quickly, Geffen became an agent for such 1960s stars as Joni Mitchell, the Association and Laura Nyro...
Coincidentally, another familiar Iran-contra figure, Israeli arms agent and counterterrorism expert Amiram Nir, died last week in the crash of a small Cessna plane in Mexico. The pilot also died, and two passengers were injured. Nir, a former aide to Shimon Peres and to Yitzhak Shamir, worked closely with North in the sale of U.S. arms to Iran, traveled with him to Tehran in the attempted arms-for-hostage exchanges and briefed Vice President Bush on the ill-fated scheme...
...Padres got Hurst on the same day they lost another pitcher. Free agent Andy Hawkins left San Diego and signed with the New York Yankees, with both announcements coming within minutes of each other...