Word: caper
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...America's turn to steal scenarios, stars and directors, too. Jackie Chan has made four Hollywood films since his breakthrough in Rush Hour. His latest, The Tuxedo, is a wan spy caper with digital tricks that undermine Chan's amazing physical grace. Shu Qi, the Taiwan-born beguiler, has better luck with her English-language debut, The Transporter, a furious demolition derby produced by Besson and directed by Hong Kong action auteur Corey Yuen (Fong...
...Mani, a political extremist with strong ties to the Tamil Tigers, to head negotiations for Nagappa's release. But as of last Saturday, police and federal commandos claimed to have the bandit cornered in a 5-sq-km patch of the Dinnahalli forest. Could this be Veerappan's final caper...
...connected Tokhtakhounov to the Salt Lake caper until May, when the fbi obtained and translated wiretaps that the Italians recorded during the Olympics. Imagine their surprise at hearing Tokhtakhounov spell out his Olympic machinations. The U.S. issued a complaint charging him with two counts of conspiracy to commit sports bribery, and Italy slapped him into a Venice jail to await extradition. "He is astonished at the accusations," said his Italian lawyer Luca Saldarelli. "He is not interested in ice skating...
...white-shirt-blue-suit-discreet-tie FBI reinvented itself from a corps of 'generalists,' trained in law and accounting, into a confrontational 'Special Weapons and Tactics' (aka SWAT) Green Beret-style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence: in Vidal's account, it's those who job it is to fight crime who are the criminals, and who pull the "capers...
ALTERNATE ENDING In the original movie, bank robbers Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) and their co-conspirators try to pull off a daring heist. The alternate ending gives a glimpse of each of their lives after the spectacular caper...