Word: burglarized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate actors as they perform a sex farce titled Nothing On during a fleabag provincial tour. The plot of Nothing On involves a ditzy maid in an English country house, a wayward plate of sardines, an illicit couple, a licit couple dodging the taxman, a sheik and a bibulous burglar. Doors slam (the set contains seven of them) and trousers drop with dizzying abandon...
Murray recalls one occasion when Victor Garber, portraying a lecherous real estate agent in Nothing On, inadvertently placed the prop wine bottle two inches away from its appointed spot: "This meant that Douglas Scale [the pixilated burglar] couldn't reach it. Doug brushed it, knocked it over. I reached for it, fumbled it and dropped it between us. We're talking a couple of inches, but that's crucial. The audience is suspended on a tightrope with us. If we stop, they lose their involvement...
Company founders fortunate enough not only to reap but also to keep their winnings sometimes find the attention they receive to be unsettling. The new multimillionaires begin to worry about kidnap attempts on themselves and their families. They erect security fences around their homes, install elaborate burglar alarms and buy faster cars. Sy Merns, founder of Syms, a chain of eleven off-price clothing stores mostly in the Northeast, cashed in some $33 million worth of shares when his company went public in September, and his stock holdings are estimated at more than $110 million. Because of concerns about...
...years ago that an empty police car parked alongside a speedway would serve just as well as a manned cruiser to slow down traffic. In fact, at least one Beverly Hills denizen has taken to keeping a fake patrol car in the driveway to deter thieves. Mere burglar alarms are obsolete today; the up-to-date suburban paranoiac installs timers in his house to turn lights off and on while he is away...
...west side of the imposing, neoclassical building. After scaling a 20-ft. stone wall, they reached one of the windows to the old masters' gallery. It was not protected by bars, so the thieves merely cut a hole in the glass, opened the latch, and slipped inside. The burglar alarm, museum attendants later admitted, had been out of order for three weeks...