While I was sitting in Canberra bemoaning the cartoonish debate playing out about whether the Labor senator Sam Dastyari was a double agent, wincing about a serious issue being reduced to a potboiler, Labor MPs were telling me they were being approached in their electorates about Dastyari being some new cold war operative.
In "The Institute of Memory (TIMe)," which was performed at REDCAT in 2015, he pursued the documentary trail left by his late Polish-born father, a mysterious Cold War operative, in the context of the contemporary debate on identity, data and privacy in the post-Edward Snowden era.
Culled from Mr Dodge's full collection of more than 12,000 works—which normally reside at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey—it is as much political archive as art collection.The collection was put together under circumstances that would have made a cold-war operative proud.
Bond was first conceived as a Cold War-era operative.
What Mr. McCarry learned as a Cold War C.I.A. operative served him well as a writer.
The weisswurst frühstück Obama was enjoying is a beery Bavarian stalwart: boiled sausages with mustard, freshly baked pretzels and a cold weissbier, the operative word here being cold.
"I'm sure there's some cold-eyed political operative in the White House who saw this as a chance to win some support in New Hampshire, but I don't think George Bush had that in mind," he said.
Darren McGavin's cold-hearted government operative from the pilot was replaced by a more friendly boss, Oscar Goldman (played by Richard Anderson), and the show moved further and further from the espionage adventures of Martin Caidin's Cyborg novels on which it was originally based.
(Warner Archive Collection, DVDs $17.95 each, not rated) ALSO OUT THIS WEEK SAFE HOUSE Trying to come in from the cold, a rogue C.I.A. operative (Denzel Washington) holes up in a South African "safe house," where his keeper is an inexperienced operative (Ryan Reynolds).
A former C.I.A. operative writes Cold War-style novels about the struggle between East and West.
