Model philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not. They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me […] civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten up their rotten little lives. Fritz Lang laid much of the groundwork for the spy films which were to come later with his deeply atmospheric, paranoia-drenched early films. On the heels of the visionary but commercially disastrous Metropolis , Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou put together this low budget thriller to try and avoid the UFA studio cancelling his contract. Lang thought of it as "a small film," but it's big on action.
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Melita Norwood
'A Woman Of No Importance': American Spy Virginia Hall Finally Gets Her Due : NPR
WHEN great-grandmother Melita Norwood, 87, stepped out of her house in suburban Bexleyheath yesterday, it was hard to believe she could be the most important spy ever recruited by the KGB. Her neighbours knew she was a life-long Communist who still took the Morning Star - she would buy 32 copies of each issue and hand them out to friends - but she never appeared anything other than harmless, the only evidence of radicalism were the CND posters in the bay window of her semi. Now she is unmasked as the agent who leaked key Western secrets to the Soviet Union for more than 40 years, only stopping when she retired in secrets that changed the history of the 20th century. This helped Stalin to manufacture his own bomb two years ahead of schedule. Her treachery would have remained a secret had Russian intelligence archivist Vasili Mitrokhin not defected to MI6 in He brought with him a treasure trove - six large trunkfuls of KGB files. One of the agent files was marked with the codename "Hola" and revealed the existence of a a top agent who had remained undetected for more than four decades.
'A Woman Of No Importance' Finally Gets Her Due
Harriet the Spy is a book by Louise Fitzhugh about a girl named Harriet who likes to spy on neighbors. Two sequels were written by Fitzhugh— The Long Secret , published the year after Harriet , and Sport , which was published after Fitzhugh's death. Several other sequels were written afterward by ghost authors. The original was adapted into a movie in starring Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O'Donnell as Ole Golly, which is notably the first theatrical film from Nickelodeon ; as well as into the movie Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars in Harriet is a precocious eleven-year-old who writes down everything because she wants to be a writer when she grows up.
Back in October, Alexis wrote a piece asking what rights do we have with regard to the air above our property. Walk onto someone's lawn and you're trespassing; fly over it in a helicopter and you're in the clear -- "the air is a public highway," the Supreme Court declared in But what about the in-between space? Does the availability of unmanned aerial vehicles aka drones, aka UAVs throw a wrench in the old legal understandings?
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