Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theft took place in the dead of night on March 18, 1990, when two men dressed as police broke into the Gardner, tied up two museum guards and dismantled the security system. They left with 13 objects, including two certified masterworks--Vermeer's The Concert and Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Strangely, the robbers chose not to lift the museum's most prized piece, Titian's Rape of Europa...
Either way, the tapes will surely complicate the questions facing Attorney General Janet Reno, who has been trying to decide for weeks whether the President and the Vice President broke federal fund-raising laws. It will not make things easier for Reno that the release of the tapes to investigators came just hours after she had informed House Republicans that Clinton's White House coffees "involve mere access to the President" and therefore needed no further investigation. At the same time that she was issuing her statement last Friday, Reno extended by 60 days her probe of Vice President...
...made African-American films--like many well-intentioned, well-made white films--have often failed to become moneymakers. Spike Lee's 1996 film Get on the Bus, a fictional drama about the Million Man March, drew some favorable reviews but few theatergoers. Says a source close to Lee: "That broke Spike's heart." Even the 1996 comedy-fantasy The Preacher's Wife, starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington and directed by Penny Marshall, was a commercial disappointment...
...Brattle St. at approximately 2:15 a.m. she noticed a gray Honda occupied by two white males following her. One of the males spoke to her, and she continued to walk. One of the males then exited the car and grabbed her by the coat. The victim broke free and fled as the suspect reentered the car and fled...
...were well treated... During the noon hour, a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked, "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh, I'd love to." And another Negro pupil recalled, "The white kids broke the ice. They talked to us." Clearly, many of the white children of Central High School were proving themselves better citizens than their elders...