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...their tension-packed relationships makes for a plodding introduction to Dirty Hands, but the story suddenly picks up when the adulterers decide to carry out their macabre scheme. The inevitable police investigation maintains the interest level for a while longer before the film enters its finest moments about midway into the story...
...dozen most important men in Peking and perhaps also a Karla mole, one even more important than Haydon had been. Are the siblings estranged? Or is their relationship thicker then blood? Smiley backtracks through archives and files to find names, places, references once suppressed by Haydon. Midway through the paper chase, coherence emerges. A devious plan unfolds, vouchsafed piecemeal to the anxious reader. The opening moves are made with Jerry Westerby, an aristocratic refugee from occasional Circus assignments now living in the Tuscany hills, where his bookish habits have earned him the sobriquet "the Schoolboy." Westerby carries...
Harvard took a 7-0 lead midway through the first period when starting quarterback Larry Brown rolled out at the Colgate 18-yard line and hit Scott Coolidge down the sideline for the score. The Red Raiders had fumbled on their own 22 just two plays before...
...gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter: "Ours is a Communism with joie de vivre...
September 19. 1977--The Crimson score, the climax to a 14-play, 79-yard drive midway through the second quarter, came on a five-yard rollout by quarterback Tim Davenport--who, all things considered--like the fact that this was his initial varsity start behind center--performed with aplomb...