Word: caper
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...Stone saw that theatrical caper break the 'choreographed' confrontations of Committeemen and Communists that punctuated his own haunted Fifties," Kopkind writes. "By refusing to dance the part of fearful, trembling witness, Rubin and his troupe helped destroy an all-too-hallowed set piece...
...Nixon was right. One of his excuses for "the Watergate caper" was that other presidents have ordered similar burglaries. The old "they all do it" gambit was fine as long as the victims were members of minority groups and others who don't deserve civil liberties in the first place, but as soon as Edmund Muskie cried in New Hampshire and a night janitor at the Watergate Complex happened on a taped door-lock, the cry was, "Hold on, boys! These are the major politicians you're messing with...
...whole raveled sequence is the work of men desperate for an ending. It is also in bad taste, though it cannot stand comparison to Brooks' most egregious caper, the Springtime for Hitler number in The Producers. But goldarned if it doesn't work. Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls "authentic western gibberish...
...hear the Chinese tell it, the caper came right out of a spy novel. "It was the evening of Jan. 15 when the streets in the Chinese capital were emptying," reported the official New China News Agency. "A gray Soviet Volga car sped out of the Soviet embassy in China. Winding through streets and lanes, it left the city and raced toward the northeastern outskirts...
This isn't a movie, it's a recipe. The people who put The Sting together followed the instructions on the Butch Cassidy package: one Paul Newman, one Robert Redford, a dash of caper. Stir in the same director, if available...