Sentences with phrase «private eye with»

Set in the 1930s to the 1950s, Collins's gripping and humorous hard - boiled stories follow Heller, a Chicago private eye with a knack for nabbing high - profile cases involving famous people.

Now Milo is free - falling into another country, a land of big money and small armies of corruption, of crooked politicians and two women willing to share their lust with a private eye with a bad back.

As a detective picture about a private eye with flawed vision — in this case, a small - time independent dick and former football player named Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), who'd like to think he's Sam Spade — it would make a great double bill with «Chinatown,» released the previous year.

Not exact matches

She plans to revisit the idea once in office, with an eye to addressing some of the failings of the current law, which allows for private insurers to vie for customers on federal and state - run health insurance exchanges.

This fall, with more than 200 designers, 63 catwalk shows and an endless stream of private galas and afterparties, all eyes will be on London.

From Sept. 17 — 22, with more than 200 designers, 63 catwalk shows, private galas and after parties, all eyes will be on London.

In April, Sankaty Advisors, an arm of private equity behemoth Bain Capital, purchased Manischewitz Co., America's dominant matzo manufacturer, with an eye to marketing more kosher foods to non-Jews.

If the next decade of human space transportation is about private companies finding and developing cheaper and more efficient ways into Earth orbit, the decade following will be all about space agencies learning how to operate farther and farther from home, with an eventual eye to orbiting and eventually landing humans on Mars in the mid-2030s (per NASA's timeline).

It is a black - eye for its its three owners, KKR, Bain Capital Partners and real estate investment trust Vornado Realty Trust, who took the retailer private in 2005 for $ 6.6 billion, leaving it with $ 4.9 billion in debt.

Online retailer eBay has launched a joint venture with a unit of Citic Private Equity Funds Management Co. Ltd., eyeing a boost...

Canada's biggest private - equity firm, Onex Corp., has also moved deeper into the U.S. market, ramping up its business packaging the debt as securities with an eye to doubling that unit's assets in two years.

Texas - based NanoRacks is also keeping its eye on the 3D - printed prize, collaborating with other private entrepreneurial space companies to form the Ixion Initiative Team, spearheaded by NASA.

His move also shows that the siren call of private equity and hedge funds, financial industries that promise eye - popping compensation with far lighter regulatory burdens, is growing louder.

It is unlike it at several important points: (1) it is engaged in not alone but with other people, some and perhaps many of whom are likely to be strangers; (2) it is conducted by someone usually a minister or priest — and is channeled through regular forms; (3) there are appeals to the eye in the sanctuary's architecture and appointments and to the ear in music and spoken word which are not usually present in private worship; and (4) in the singing of hymns and the unison repetition of prayers and responsive readings there is opportunity for corporate vocal self - expression.

Private equity firm Castanea Partners has made a minority investment in Portland, Oregon - based Brew Dr. Kombucha's parent company Townshend Group (TTG), with an eye on expanding the organic kombucha brand's US reach and consumer awareness.

For now, potential future leadership candidates are still keeping beady eyes on the ultimate prize, courting conference delegates with private phone calls and dolling out advice to thinktank types sniffing aroundparliamentary seats.

I was on the Work and Pensions Select Committee with Purnell during the Parliament before last, and he took a cool, dry - eyed, private sector - friendly view of how IB should be reformed.

Menendez is charged with trading his political influence for bribes in the form of luxury hotel stays and flights on a private jet provided by Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, a longtime friend.

She has been left with blurred vision from botched laser eye surgery at a private clinic.

It's also worth noting that those medieval centres of power that Letwin & Blond get all misty eyed about included nobles with their own private armies.

But with private eye Bo Dietl throwing his hat in the ring for mayor, de Blasio may get a taste of Trumpism in his own backyard.

According to a source, Dickson was said to have met alone with Babangida in his private study, away from the prying eyes of aides of both politicians.

Menendez stands accused of accepting all - expense - paid trips and private jet flights from Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Palm Beach eye doctor, in exchange for help with the doctor's $ 8.9 million Medicare bill and in obtaining visas for the ophthalmologist's young girlfriends.

When in addition to your personal disappointment, your private shame in the face of the scale, you have to deal with that painful failure in the public eye.

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For example, nearly every gay dating site allows you to chat with other members, message them via private in - boxes and all the rest, but some look like clunky old interfaces from the 1980s while others are slick, clean and much more easy on the eyes.

Once a hot guy (or two) catches your eye, flirt with them via private emails and.

Once you build an anonymous profile (which is free), you can make private calls and send private emails with those who catch your wandering eye.

With cool - eyed charisma and looks suggesting he had borrowed DNA from Paul Newman and Dennis Hopper, Barry Pepper first caught the attention of audiences and critics as the Bible - quoting Private Jackson in Saving Private Ryan.

Each and every one masterfully deploys a full arsenal of subtle moues, grimaces and side - eye glances to hint at private feelings that may or may not be in accord with the consensus around the table.

The situation The Big Lebowski gives us is what if you took out the private eye and replaced him with a man so lazy, he is unable to solve any mystery.

A Las Vegas gambler wins a Hawaii fling with a private eye's bride during a convention of Elvis impersonators.

The plot revolves around the murder of a gag - gift mogul, and when Roger Rabbit is framed with the murder, private eye Hoskins gets caught in the middle of the action.

A stylish new «Ultimate»70s» trailer has arrived online for Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film Inherent Vice, and we have it for you below... When private eye Doc Sportello's (Joaquin Phoenix) ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be -LSB-...]

If Raymond Chandler and Chuck Jones had ever sat down together over a few beers, this is what they might have come up with: a fantastic amalgam of classic private eye mystery and brilliant razzle - dazzle Looney Tunes cartoonery — undoubtedly the greatest animated film noir feature ever made.

But Dave Kehr's Reader capsule, written some time later, is probably more judicious: «Not just another genre rehash (cf Farewell, My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; Gumshoe), but a genuinely ingratiating private - eye update with Art Carney as a middle - aged Marlowe trying to find out who killed his partner.

Given the missed opportunities and forced efforts on DVD this week, The Missing Person (Strand) looks all the better, a low - key private - eye pastiche with a disaffected detective and a running stream of hard - boiled narration winding his way through a missing persons case that resonates with the losses and anxieties of 9/11.

He wanted to write something for John Hawkes, explore the private eye genre and experiment with capturing long takes on 35 mm.

Starring Ralph Meeker as the cranky Los Angeles private eye Mike Hammer, the film begins with Hammer picking up a lone woman in a trench coat (played by Cloris Leachman), who is frantically hitchhiking down the highway one shadowy night.

With nothing better to do after being roused from eternal slumber, she joins Ned and his private eye partner Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) to solve the murders of recently deceased (who all come briefly to life to provide a few clues to their killer).

Mr. Wilson is just as competitive an actor as Mr. Stiller, but sails through the movie with his toasted graciousness, which is equal parts Jeff Spicoli of «Fast Times at Ridgemont High» and the television private eye Jim Rockford.

When they hire a private investigator to keep an eye on Howard, Whit, Claire and Simon learn he has been dealing with his grief by writing letters to Love, Time and Death.

Adrianne Palicki plays porn star Holly Rocket, with Timothy Olyphant portraying private eye Dellwood Butterworth.

Resorting to her old tricks (and soon slapped with breaking and entering charges), Veronica investigates DeVille's demise, unconvinced that Neptune's corrupt police department, which her father (Enrico Colantoni) left to start his own private eye business long ago, will get to the bottom of it.

Basically, though, the film noir flourished in and reflected a contemporary milieu; films noirs tended to have to do with the world of crime, whether overtly (police and FBI stories, private - eye flicks, gangster stories) or by extension — that is, films in which «the world of crime» proved to be inseparable from the world of nightclubs and cabarets, offices and tenements, cars and homes where private citizens might become, by accident or design, guilty souls.