Word: caper
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...song and on sweatshirts, Cooper has inspired nearly half a dozen imitators, all of whom have failed. But a new spate of plane snatchings last week seemed to stem from the more recent exploits of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., 29, who came the closest to succeeding since the Cooper caper...
KUBRICK ONCE made a better film which dealt with violent crime and threw some cynical side-long darts at society-at-large via that arena. This was The Killing, his third production and first real success. A thieves-falling-out caper movie, its characters were so overheated that the action verged on black comedy, but they were recognizable enough to retain sympathy when necessary: Kubrick here walked a much tighter rope than the one he toes in Clockwork, Sterling Hayden played a savvy gunny, Elisha Cook the pathetic hen-pecked cashier who cracks--and kills the rest of Hayden...
...film was more involving than Clock work; more understated, thus more intellectually palatable; and it was better-made. Kubrick used Lucien Ballard's hard-edged black-and-white photography in the rangy prose style of most good American narrative films. Since the caper gives events a trap-like structure, without closing out the growth of characterization, Ballard's lights make the settings eloquent without making them overbearing. When Cook is shot by his wife, he falls where his apartment's worn carpet catches streetlight. A parakeet screeches over the punk's fallen body, and the scene and the sound...
...Elizabeth he refers to Douglas as "the local minister with portfolio" and describes him as "the best thing hereabouts since polio vaccine. His ministrations have been no less than providential." Douglas came up with lots of seemingly helpful advice. He said that when he told Berrigan that the Washington caper would necessarily entail some violence, the priest agreed. Berrigan also agreed, said Douglas, to using a gun "but suggested the possible use of blanks. I advised him that I was sure I could obtain...
Like too many American comic novelists, Maloney seems to lack self-respect. The Nixon Recession Caper is a reasonably funny - and unreasonably tame - piece of what gets called high jinks. May it prove successful enough to give Maloney the confidence to write the wild and offensive novel he is capable...