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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then in 1972 something equally important happened: she met Aaron Russo, 36, a New Yorker and a rock promoter. He yelled like her father, she says, and he was her lover for six months, her man ager for six years, and her Svengali all the time. "Make me a legend!" Bette told him, and he did, or almost did. Like Alan Bates, who plays Rose's tyrannical man ager in the movie, Russo dominated Bette's life and her career, in terms of the job his advice was impeccable. Until The Rose, he turned down every film role...
This has been a vintage year for spies, real and imagined. In that second realm of entertainment, terrorists stalked the bestseller list, and every month new operatives peered from the dust jackets of international thrillers. Most of the books, of course, were time killers, for those who like it dead. But a few managed to cross the DMZ into the demanding arena...
Over the next year they sold thousands of messages, diagrams and computer codes to the resident Soviet agents, including a KGB colonel with steel teeth. The Soviets wound up unwittingly bankrolling Daulton's drug operation, and the pair came to grief only after an unannounced delivery to the embassy to raise cash for a big drug deal. The friends turned against each other at their trials, Christopher saying he had been blackmailed into stealing the secrets by his former friend, Daulton insisting that all along he had been told they were working for the U.S., spreading false information. Judge...
...falconry, the drug trade, spy satellites, the duo's stoned bum-bung, and their torturous legal battles after capture. But there are enough tantalizing loose ends in the book to make it clear that Lindsey is describing life, not art. Why, for instance, did TRW put a 21-year-old, $140-a-week college dropout in such a sensitive post? Did the leaks really damage U.S. security? Perhaps Boyce and Lee actually were being used by the CIA to spread false evidence. If not, concludes Lindsey, then "the affair of the snowman and the spy who called himself Falcon...
...their objections and those lodged by other volunteers. They have become a clearinghouse ("The nation's largest," says Mel) for critiques written by almost anyone of textbooks, dictionaries and library books. They mail copies on request and receive contributions in return that total some $60,000 per year...