Word: capered
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...previews on two continents, perpetually revised endings, ruptured psyches! Last year they made you weep with the spectacle of a three-ring movie studio on the verge of bankruptcy, only to be saved at the last minute by the world-renowned Paramount Pictures! And now, for their most stupendous caper, never before attempted on any stage . . . One From the Heart! It will be presented-without the sponsorship of Paramount-at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in the heart of glamorous Manhattan! So come! See a high-wire artiste, a pratfalling clown, a man who shoots himself from cannons...
...Soviets, Oakes is asked to fake a forced landing in the U.S.S.R. and allow a packet of forged documents to fall into enemy hands. The aim of this counterespionage is to neutralize a Soviet agent and drive a wedge into Chinese-Soviet relations. Can Blackie pull off this caper and get home in time for such bourgeois sentimentality as marrying his sweetheart and celebrating Christmas? Not to worry; the East and West love to swap important captured agents at any time of the year...
...Japanese magazine and subsequent memory lapse on the subject obscures the more important questions about him. We certainly don't know his motives in the case; but we must agree with his own assessment that he showed "bad judgement." But regardless of his culpability in the thousand-dollar-caper, Allen has demonstrated both before and after his appointment to this key post a remarkable unsuitability to it. President Reagan would be doing us all a service by dismissing Allen immediately...
...central caper of Setting Free the Bears, Irving's picaresque first novel, is a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo. The book was written and rewritten between 1965 and 1967 at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. The impassioned, charging prose announced the arrival of a fresh talent...
...true royal tandem this summer is a prince-frog named Kermit and his porcine treasure, Miss Piggy. In their sequel to The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Dynel delights are out to retrieve the fabulous Baseball Diamond and bring to justice the swine-oops, dastard-who stole it. Caper never lives up to Kermit's early promise: "Boy, I wish I were you people seeing this picture for the first time." Fozzie Bear, Animal, Gonzo and the rest are more at home subverting the rigid formulas of TV. But as the Divine Miss P says here...