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...Grand Hotel. Their efforts yielded what Commander Bill Hucklesby, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch, called "significant items." Police theorize that the bomb, possibly wrapped in plastic to hide its odor from police dogs, was planted behind a panel in a bathroom of the hotel by I.R.A. "sleeper agents" long resident in England. The device was apparently detonated by a sophisticated microchip timer that could have been preset weeks earlier...
...only big sellers but big promotional tools for the films they embellish. The lesson was resoundingly driven home with last year's Flashdance, whose album (4.9 million copies sold in the U.S.), hit singles like What a Feeling, and omnipresent videos helped turn a mediocre film into a sleeper success, grossing $97 million in the U.S. and Canada...
...added that pornography films have only recently become the most popular PUC movies. "The best movies we've had have been Airplane, Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall and Sleeper," he said...
...Chicago Tribune touted him as a "sleeper," one of the most talented players in the city whom no one ever heard about. College scouts called his home almost every night making him offers. Duncan turned down lots of them. He decided he would go for an Ivy League education instead...
Last year it was even closer. It started out a real sleeper, with no scoring in the first 27 minutes. Then quarterback Don Allard raced into the end zone with 2:44 remaining in the first half to give Harvard the 7-0 advantage...