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...record-setting heist last Easter bore striking similarities to last weekend's robbery. "It might be that there is a link," said a Scotland Yard spokesman, "or it might be that it is a copycat." The gang that raided the forbidding Security Express warehouse, known as "Fort Knox," seized a lone guard in the early hours of the morning, trussed up seven other employees as they arrived for work, and poured gasoline over one of their captives' legs. Once the security vault was open, the thieves loaded their booty into three waiting vans, painted yellow to resemble those...
...also been revamping its operations. More inventory has been moved onto the floor to avoid time-wasting runs to the back room. Stockroom clerks who formerly stayed behind the scenes now put new goods on shelves in full view of customers. Shopping carts used to be anathema because they bore the aura of discount stores, but now they are being tested in some locations. Salespeople have been ordered to keep displays tidy and to fill in at cash registers to help cut average checkout time from three minutes to 90 seconds...
...most dramatic story was of Rozier's last high school game, Thanksgiving weekend, the climax of an unusual season in Camden abbreviated by a gang war. That fall, the Wheels of Soul and the Ghetto Riders bore a certain grudge against each other. The leader of the Wheels had a relative playing for Camden and was not inclined to miss a game. "At the beginning of the third quarter, the shooting broke out," Rozier says. "It sounded like caps at first. Then there was smoke. We all hit the dirt. Both teams were face down around...
Bizet: Nietzsche! I sometimes think I have suffered more from that old bore's praise than from the censure often others...
...dialogue is extraordinarily real. The novel does offer an unparalleled portrayal of the life of New York's leisurely class in the '80s; Schwamm's setting includes Max Ernst dresses, original Bauhaus furniture and Balducci's. The snubs and gossip at the parties and charity auctions which so bore Nora furnish some of the most absorbing information we receive, and here the narrative commentary finally achieves the appropriate level of irony...