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...kind of literary halfway house for the morally rotten, propping up an entire repertory company of safecrackers, bank robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke of the Dortmunder series (The Hot Rock; What's the Worst That Could Happen?) is that everyone in the hero's extensive social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NAUGHTY, BUT ALSO NICE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...inability to keep information about ourselves private is far less insidious than our inability to protect our bodies and property from harm. A burglar entering our home violates our physical privacy in a far more serious way than someone who uses the Internet to steal from us. Most of us would rather receive junk mail than deal with door-to-door salespeople. Basically, the hoodlums have changed the tools of their trade. PAWAN K. BHARTIA Mitchellville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1997 | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

Technically, the lighting was masterful. The play begins in the dark during the robbery; as the viewer's eyes adjust, the scene becomes clearer and the viewer can make out the furtive burglar by faint light from a window. While stuck in pitch black, the viewer empathizes with Ata and her fear: however, this is the only time in the play one feels any empathy for any of the characters. However, the dramatic silences were violated by the annoying and incessant buzzing hum of the lights...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: 'Criminal Hearts' Weighed Down by Implausible Plot | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...consolidate purchases related to home owning that HFS franchisers could handle through affiliated HFS real estate units. For example, PHH could not only find and sell a home to a relocating corporate executive but could also write the mortgage. Silverman sees no reason why anything from title insurance to burglar alarms to satellite dishes or storage space can't be provided through HFS affiliated vendors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEALMAKER HENRY SILVERMAN: HFS STANDS FOR GROWTH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Screenwriter William Goldman, 65, working from the David Balducci novel, asks you to believe that the burglar has hidden behind a two-way mirror in a room where the President is having nasty sex with his adviser's young wife--and that our larcenous hero does nothing to stop her murder. This old-style thriller sometimes creaks in its joints as it adds an amoral aide (Judy Davis), a canny cop (Ed Harris) and a Secret Service agent (Scott Glenn) as weary as the one Clint played in In the Line of Fire. But Eastwood is less interested in political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IN LIKE CLINT | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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