Word: derringer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now people have the chance to see two comedies that waft like zephyrs through a movie summer humid with macho derring-do. In their world, romance is bruised but blooming; and the characters are so fully drawn that the moviegoer can become possessive of them, even judgmental, as he would...
Moviegoers have two surrogate storytelling dads: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Lucas, who dreamed up Star Wars for a generation of space cadets, is the mastermind of the Indiana Jones series. Spielberg directed the trilogy, which reaches its thrilling climax this week when Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens...
When he disappeared from Beirut in January 1963, after telling his wife he would meet her at a diplomatic dinner party that evening, Kim Philby was a relatively obscure British journalist. During the quarter-century between his defection to the Soviet Union, for which he had been spying since the...
Houston's Southeast Tactical Response Unit personified zeal and derring-do: the nine police officers smashed crack houses and nabbed drug dealers, racking up 500 arrests in two years. But last week prosecutors moved to throw out more than 100 pending cases, as all nine officers stood suspended for allegedly...
When the Winter Olympics open in Calgary this week, TIME's own team will be on hand, reporting at the speed of a downhill racer, snapping pictures with the derring-do of a bobsledder and enduring late deadlines with the stamina of a cross-country skier. Our coach is Senior...