Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pink Panther begins with an intricate and extremely dexterous jewel robbery, a sequence that Edwards stages with great finesse. The Pink Panther is a priceless jewel, and Clouseau must find out what happened to it. His major suspect-who, needless to say, is probably innocent-is the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton (Christopher Plummer), a character amusingly and lovingly modeled on Gary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief. Litton must track down the real culprits while Clouseau stalks him. There is little question of ever catching Litton, of course, but the unnatural disasters that Clouseau...
Word spread that the U.S. had abandoned the giant commissary at Newport, setting off a frenzy of looting by some 3,000 Vietnamese. As burglar alarms brayed, looters wheeled off shopping carts filled with sugar, medicines and frozen pork chops that began immediately to thaw and drip hi the blazing sun. Cops in the nearby parking lot watched with amusement, occasionally plucking a few items for themselves from passing shopping carts as a kind of exit toll. Finally a truckload of military police arrived, firing M-16 bursts into the air, and the looting stopped...
...merchants of death" of an earlier era, immortalized in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw's Undershaft, whose credo was "to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles ... to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes." Consider, for instance, only a few of the transactions announced within the past two weeks...
...right to the point. "Hi," says a seductive, girlish voice. "Would you be interested in my warm, nude body?" One New York City resident, worried by a rash of break-ins in his neighborhood, finally added the following warning to his automatic phone greeting: "If you're a burglar and think that you can come over while I'm out, listen to this: [recorded tiger snarls and lion roars...
Dean objected to Watergate Burglar G. Gordon Liddy's comparing him to Judas in a CBS-TV interview. "Judas did not forewarn Christ," Dean noted. "But if I am Judas, I don't regret turning from the religion I turned from...