Word: burglarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However much Cortazar may remind readers of Poe, Maupassant, and Camus, his cool style and gothic viewpoint make him a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. What is it-a burglar, beast or spectral thing? If it occurs in a Cortazar story, it is likely to be something nameless and decidedly lethal...
...ravaging the West Side. Williams Drug Store was a charred shell by dusk. More than one grocery collapsed as though made of Lincoln Logs. A paint shop erupted and took the next-door apartment house with it. In many skeletal structures the sole sign of life was a wailing burglar alarm. Lou's Men's Wear expired in a ball of flame. Meantime, a mob of 3,000 took up the torch on the East Side several miles away. The Weather Bureau's tornado watch offered brief hope of rain to damp the fires, but it never...
GAMBIT. Michael Caine and Shirley Mac-Laine are paired as a burglar and his accomplice in this nonchalant comedy about "the perfect crime." Set in Hong Kong and the Middle East, the plot is a series of twists and turns that culminates in five possible endings, all incredible but still...
...their beats in ever-changing patterns; for instant contact, each man carries a portable two-way radio. Not long ago, a scooter cop and a prowl-car team simultaneously got word of a burglary; riding on sidewalks, the scooter man beat the car by seven minutes and nabbed the burglar...
After shooting a few scenes in New York, George will leave for Europe to finish Jack of Diamonds, a movie in which he. plays a dashing young cat burglar who falls in love with a cat burglaress. For her part, Lynda, who, against Papa's wishes, turned down a Washington job with National Geographic, has begun to re-explore job possibilities in New York. Offers so far include a staff position at the Ford Foundation, which is headed by former White House Aide McGeorge Bundy, and the "Youthquake" editorship at McCall's magazine...