Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is certainly true of Boston's Brink's robbers. Far from being a gang of master criminals--as was first supposed--the thieves turned out to be nothing more than a bunch of petty, two-bit bumblers who hung out in Scolley Square, pulling off little jobs and dreaming of the big heist. It seemed poetic justice that these ordinary crooks were the ones to hit the prestigious armored-car company for a million and a half dollars. It was a daring robbery, no one got hurt, and the crooks very nearly got away with...
...Brink's Job this legend is played for all it's worth--even more than it's worth. Director William Friedkin is so intent on showing the lovable underdogs who made it big that he bogs the tale down...
...Minsky 's, Friedkin devotes great care to the ambience of Brink's.The production design by Dean Tavoularis (Godfather II) creates an almost dreamlike portrait of the ethnic tenements, greasy dives and teeming alleys that define the heroes' oldtime Boston underground. There is a jolly background score by Richard Rodney Bennett, as well as appropriate quotations from Walter Winchell and Movietone News. Devotees of Friedkin's most recent films may be shocked to discover that Brink's is utterly devoid of gore and brutality...
...pleasant as The Brink's Job is, one does miss some of the energy that Friedkin brings to his meaner movies. This film's exposition is too slow by half; the Brink's robbery itself is amusing without ever really being suspenseful. Perhaps some day both William Friedkins will converge in a single movie. When and if that happens, this gifted but divided craftsman will finally become a major film maker. - Frank Rich
...pages; $65). The authors have limited their choice of long-legged wading birds to a single family, the Ardeidae, which comprises some 61 species. The Snowy Egret graces the dust jacket, wearing the plumes, or aigrettes, that caused a heedless millinery trade to slaughter it to the brink of extinction in the early 1900s. But, as Emily Dickinson pointed out, hope is a thing with feathers, and today the protected Snowy has become a common sight-as well as a hopeful symbol of conservation in general...