Search Details

Word: burglar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...crowd gathered around a Carpenter Center table could almost pass for a cat-burglar convention--the students, lecturer and TF are uniformly clad in black. Viewed together, the group embodies a certain stereotype of "artsiness." The uninitiated reporter finds the attire fitting preconceptions about a VES class, and idly wonders: Where are the cigarettes and berets...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: Our Town | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...Alarmist starts as a modified Robin Hood where "the den" is a circa 1954 sushi restaurant, and the merry men have been compressed into several burglar alarm salespeople bent on income redistribution. Anyone familiar with Los Angeles will realize the timeliness of their "rob the rich" scam in which Heinrich Grigoris (Greg Tucci) boosts the sales of his alarms by staging robberies in the neighborhoods of potential clients. The twist in Grigoris' scheme is Tommy, the new salesman played with adorable, bumbling style by David Arquette. A natural at the hook, the Tommy's moral sensibilities are deeply troubled...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE ALARMIST | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...were sleeping," Risen said. "My roommate thought it was another roommate coming late. We did not really know until the morning that it was a burglar...

Author: By Radu Ban, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams House Burglar Nabs Laptop, Camera | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

Adams House has a history of burglaries. Last semester, a senior in A-Entryway found a burglar in his room disassembling his roommate's stereo...

Author: By Radu Ban, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams House Burglar Nabs Laptop, Camera | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...have probably never heard of Robert A. Bonifas, but you may be seeing a lot of him in the next few months. Bonifas, the owner of an Aurora, Ill., burglar-alarm company, is the star of a 30-sec. spot that the HMO industry is considering rolling out across the U.S. this summer to keep Congress from imposing new regulations on them in a burst of election-year populism. "We work hard to make people safer, and we work hard to offer our employees health insurance," Bonifas says in rich Middle American earnestness. "Higher health-insurance costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Play Doctor | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next