Word: capered
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...alleviate his deep existential dread. "She is a very good person," he says with heartfelt gratitude as Bergen volunteers for a particularly dangerous bit of criminality. "This is a very frightened truck," he observes as their robbery vehicle draws up in front of 11 Harrow House to begin the caper. His comment, when Howard's mistress comes to their rescue after Howard has turned against Grodin and troops of bad guys are wildly pursuing him over hill and dale: "I wish I'd been nicer...
Barry Bingham Jr., publisher and editor of the two sister papers, deplored his reporters' caper as "morally wrong," but defended their "vigorous enterprise and competitive spirit." The two newsmen were angry at having been arrested, but Fineman expressed some regret...
...much as if every third movie made in America had something to do with busting into a well-armed fortress and making off with the swag. Now the heat is on a somewhat different theme-the catastrophe epic-and Bank Shot seems like the tag end of the old caper genre. It also looks much the worse for wear, and its struggle to wring a few guffaws out of trampled material is something no one should have to watch...
...movie version. Appearing unexpectedly on the set, Kaplan and Stadter watched in amazement as two Jeeploads of movieland police blasted away at Actors Bronson and Duvall re-enacting the escape. Said Stadter afterward: "I was more scared watch ing all this than when we did the caper...
...show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned 4,871-ft. leap across Idaho's Snake River Canyon on Sept. 8 in a steam-powered Sky Cycle. While New York Congressman John Murphy sought legislation to ban coverage of Knievel's ultimate caper over network TV, "where it can be viewed by our children," good old Evel, at age 34, vowed to make his flight as planned. "I'll never want to jump so high or so far again," he reflected, "but I'd like to keep jumping till...