Word: burglarized
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...businessman who illegally fixes prices is worse than a burglar...
...plot in poetry, T. S. Eliot has compared it to a lump of meat thrown a house dog by a burglar (the writer) to keep him busy while the real business is attended to?rifling the silver cupboard or dealing in the wizardry of words. Nabokov feels the same...
...inversion of sexual roles. The men, father, son and photographer-fiancé, are towers of Jello. The women, wife and daughter, are ice picks. They live in what is almost a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence and the rape of privacy. There are three locks and a burglar alarm on the front door. There is also "The Breather," a telephonic intruder, who calls at odd, menacing hours to breathe and snort. At comic and not-so-comic war with itself, the family listens to sporadic rifle fire in the streets that betokens a city at war with itself...
...hysterical but the cops are still as empty-handed as they are empty-headed. Their few scraps of fact have only served to compound the confusion. What kind of man would violate women with wine bottles and brooms? How could he gain entrance to so many apartments without using burglar tools? How can he murder with such blind, mindless ferocity and still leave no usable clues...
...advice from ex-burglar Robert Earl Barnes [Sept. 6] in his illustrated booklet "How Safe Is Your Home from Burglars?" must be in preparation for a new rash of burglaries. If we followed his advice about changing the hinges so that doors opened out rather than in, it would be an open invitation for the burglar to simply remove the door rather than have to kick...