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Your criticism of the Chicago Commonwealth Edison Co. commercial [Dec. 20] urging homeowners to leave house lights on as burglar protection is a good example of emotional but practically worthless means to conserve energy. A homeowner will pay from three to six cents, depending on area costs, to light a 100-watt bulb for ten hours -cheap burglar protection, even during an energy crisis...
...Gore Vidal. A witty poison-pen card to the U.S. on its Bicentennial, this travelogue through America in midpassage concentrates on the crimes, high and low, of robber barons and burglar-politicians...
...Armageddon. Louis Malle, using Belmondo's steeliness for its full impact, gives us ten long minutes of his cool gaze at the opening of Le Voleur. (This is an apparently neglected film that resurfaced this summer at the Telluride Film Festival.) In the dark, eerie moonlight we watch the burglar, Belmondo, crowbar his way into a ritzy, turn-of-the-century mansion. You have never seen such gaudy art nouveau furniture as lies within this house. And Belmondo sees no reason to pamper the stuff; he cracks open cabinets and bashes his cane through display cases. "This is a dirty...
Rationalizing his lack of sympathy, Wilson writes, "Caring--empathy--is the vulgar expression of ideology, where ideology exists. Sometimes empathy is an expression of nothing at all." Last week he said "the moral culpability" between an average burglar and the Watergate burglars is "exactly the same. [There is] no difference in motivation relevant to the subject of guilt...
...lone Wallace delegate in the Texas delegation lost $500 to a mugger on a fashionable street bordering Central Park late one night. Some Oklahoma delegates had their Berkshire Hotel rooms rifled, but as one of them said: "It could have happened in any city." An Ohioan chased a burglar trying to break into his car, caught him, and returned to find that his car had been towed away from its no-parking zone by police; he paid $75 to get it back...