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Caul's and surprise
To Caul's surprise, it turns out that the conversation he had obsessed over might not mean what he thought it did: the tragedy he had anticipated is not the one which eventually occurs.

Caul's and Caul
He dons the same translucent raincoat worn by Caul, and Brill's cage-like workshop is nearly identical to Caul's workshop in The Conversation.

Caul's and by
Despite Caul's insistence that his professional code means that he is not responsible for the actual content of the conversations he records or the use to which his clients put his surveillance activities, he is wracked by guilt over a past wiretap job which resulted in the murder of three people.
Tormented by guilt over what he fears will happen to the couple, Caul's desperate efforts to forestall tragedy ultimately fail.

surprise and Director
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the internment, not on constitutional grounds, but because he believed that the most likely spies had already been arrested by the FBI shortly after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
The consensus from the Cannes jury was unanimous, however: in a surprise decision, they awarded Elephant with their top prize, the Palme d ' Or, and Van Sant with his first Best Director statue from the festival.
This came as no surprise to Saint-Gaudens, who told Mint Director Edward O. Leech that there were only four men in the world capable of such work, of whom three were in France and Saint-Gaudens was the fourth.
According to his testimony and that of others, ONI was responsible for collecting and evaluating intelligence, but R. Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, Director of War Plans, had sought and received the authority in 1940 to control information sent to the fleet on “ enemy intentions ” and “ the strategic picture .” Exercising this authority, Turner had prepared messages to fleet commanders on November 24 thata surprise aggressive movement on the Philippines or Guam is a distinct possibility ,” and on November 27 stating that “ this is a war warning … an aggressive move by Japan is expected within the next few days … indicates an amphibious expedition against either the Philippines, Thai or Kra Peninsula or possibly Borneo … execute appropriate defensive deployment .” Wilkinson had followed these messages up on December 2 with a message to the fleet commanders reporting that Japanese consuls were instructed to destroy their codes — a standard precaution for hostilities.
The move to initially sign Batch was not a surprise, given that Batch was from Pittsburgh and the Steelers ' current Director of Football Operations Kevin Colbert initially drafted Batch in Detroit.

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He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.
The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??
He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.
When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.
I dug around and found a mix, and was able to surprise them with a devil's-food cake with chocolate icing.
Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.
One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.
After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.
Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.
Caracalla left for the frontier, where for the rest of his short reign he was known for his unpredictable and arbitrary operations launched by surprise after a pretext of peace negotiations.
Apparently, defence was impossible ; there are hints, not well substantiated, of treachery ; surprise is a more likely explanation.
He had noticed, says Polybius, a “ place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a stratagem to surprise the enemy ”.
They had the element of surprise, and this was also aided by the defection of Arminius from Roman ranks prior to the battle.
In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.
Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.
As of July 2002, the fate of the Minas Gerais was still unknown, with China having reportedly made a surprise bid for its purchase.
On a particularly dark and wet night Philip attempted a surprise attack but was thwarted by the appearance of a bright light in the sky.
Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.
Determined to show the Grand Alliance that France was still resolute, Louis XIV prepared to launch a double surprise in Alsace and northern Italy.
Dressed to Kill was a note-for-note homage to Hitchcock's Psycho, including such moments as the surprise death of the lead actress and the exposition scene by the psychiatrist at the end.
He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.

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The Turks, having seized the summit of the mountain, and the French ( both soldiers and pilgrims ) having been taken by surprise, there was little hope of escape: those who tried were caught and killed, and many men, horses and baggage were cast into the canyon below the ridge.
Worf's parents were killed during a surprise attack by the Romulans on the Khitomer outpost.
As a result, Motoyasu and his men were not present at the Battle of Okehazama where Yoshimoto was killed by Oda Nobunaga's surprise assault.
With the help of the sons of the Sallarid he took Shirzad by surprise and killed him together with twenty-nine chiefs of the Varudavand, the tribe of Asfar.
* While trying to enter by surprise in the harbor of Ceuta to sink Muslim ships, the Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho is spotted and killed.
At Bordeaux, and again at the Battle of the River Garonne, the Umayyad forces were cavalry, not infantry, and were not taken by surprise, and given a chance to mass for battle, which led to the devastation of Odo's army, almost all of whom were killed with minimal losses to the Muslims.
With his ship accurately described by the survivors of U-93, Sanders and his crewmen were all killed in action when they attempted a surprise attack on on 14 August 1917.
A gunshot awakens Garraty from his doze, and to his surprise, he sees Parker standing atop the halftrack, having taken a rifle from a soldier during a shift change and killed him.
* Mr. Wint & Mr. Kidd ( Diamonds Are Forever ) – Mr. Wint is killed by James Bond by tying his " bomb surprise " to his coat tails and tossing him overboard, exploding before he hits the water.
The Barbarossa campaign of 1941 came as a complete surprise to the Soviets, resulting in the catastrophic loss of over 4 million Soviet soldiers killed or captured.
As the pursuing Austrian troops arrived, a mix of musketry and artillery fire concealed the surprise attack of Général de Brigade ( GdB ) François Étienne de Kellermann ’ s cavalry, which threw the Austrian pursuit into disordered flight back into Alessandria, having lost about 9, 400 killed, wounded, or captured.
When the all the casualties during the Battle of Zamboanga was over the 48, 700 Filipino troops and officers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary was found killed and wounded in action, the Zamboangueño resistance over 7, 642 killed and wounded in action, the American troops and officers of the United States Armed Forces units over 14, 000 killed and wounded in action and the Japanese soldiers and officers of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces units was 233, 000 killed, wounded and captured in action by the surprise attack from the officially to the Allies.
However, a surprise attack is launched on their headquarters by Richard, and both are killed.
These animals have been killed by being surprised by the large birds and battered with wings until they fall off precipitious rocky edges to their deaths, although in some cases these may be accidental killings when both the vulture and the mammal surprise each other.
He and his men took Baku ( located on the Absheron Peninsula in present-day Azerbaijan ) easily, but at Rasht ( in the southwest Caspian Sea in modern Iran ) the Persians killed roughly 400 Cossacks in a surprise attack.
A hundred Ngāti Maniapoto launched a surprise attack on 7 Sept and killed 5 including all the British while they were in a canoe.
When Minnesota's U. S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on August 31, 1940, Ball was the surprise appointment to fill the unexpired term.
Once Robert was unarmoured, the trapped Vikings launched a surprise attack and killed him before he had time to re-arm.
The plots are complex, multi-layered, and unpredictable: regular characters are killed off abruptly, and surprise twists abound.
Several hundred of the Ngai Tahu were killed both on the Elizabeth and during a surprise landing the next morning.
Meanwhile, in Yi Province, in 303, Luo Shang, after causing Li Te to be ready by offering a truce, made a surprise attack against Li's forces and killed him.

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