As he walked with Rocky""s entourage toward the ring, Paulie advised: "Get rid of the damn beast, let it be done once and for all.Nothing in her background or breeding should have brought her any closer to the stage than Row E, Center.A traitor who had stolen "one-half of a C.I.A.NOC list, a record of all our deep-cover agents working in Eastern Europe." [NOC List = "Non Official Cover" List.] Both halves of the list were necessary to understand the information (code-names had to be matched with true names) - and Golitsyn already had the list which contained agent code names, and was planning to steal the other list-half, during a reception at the Embassy the following evening...I was to start writing it out in the country.Morbid stuff.Nothing for the Book-of-the-Month Club.A horror story! Confessions of a booze addict.The log book of an alcoholic...You know what I""m gonna call my novel?The Bottle.That""s all, very simply,The Bottle.I""ve got it all here in my mind.Let me tell you the first chapter.It all starts one wet afternoon about three years ago.There was a matinee ofLa Traviataat the Metropolitan...BackgroundLove Story(1970) is a sentimental, romantic tearjerker film from director Arthur Hiller about a tragic couple.