Word: capered
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...Quotidien de Paris called the caper "the snobbiest heist of the year." The snobs who were implicated, it now appears, were hard up for money despite their splendiferous ways. The baroness had been living by candlelight in her Left Bank apartment, not for romantic reasons but because the power had been turned off for nonpayment. The baron had survived by serving as a house sitter for a rich Venezuelan woman on the Avenue Foch...
...extremely low temperatures and infuses them with the flavors of the liquid in which they are poached, is not much to look at, but Torres is thrilled with what it does. "Look at the skin," he exclaims, pulling the hake out of the Gastrovac and plating it with a caper and red pepper broth. "It has the same sheen as it did when it was raw!" Call it the Blumenthal-Adrià effect. Ever since Europe's two famously avant-garde chefs, Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adriá, began using liquid nitrogen to freeze mousses tableside and siphons to turn...
...Howard government was new to this majority owner/regulator caper. Still, there was no reason to think it would not learn to cater to its new share-owning constituency. Today, around 1 in 9 voters is a Telstra shareholder; it's a broad group, to be sure, but like a majority of asset-rich Australians, these T-people tend to vote for the John Howard?led Coalition. Just last week, a survey by Roy Morgan Research showed that the government has very strong support among its joint-venture partners in the telco: 71% of Telstra shareholders surveyed supported the Howard government...
...skip the give-to-the-poor bit. Nobody's perfect!) In fact, Heist's greatest crime is robbing innocent movies of their clichés: the Tarantino-gone-PG banter, the whooshing camera shots, the generic peppy jazz that sounds as if it were lifted from a Putumayo Presents Lighthearted Caper Music of the World...
...Currier House caper has its residents tickled by the second disappearance of their Sesame Street mascot. “Elmo is gone again,†Patricia G. Pepper, assistant to the master, announced in an e-mail to a House list Friday. “Elmo†refers to a painting of the red-furred Sesame Street character that normally hangs on the lower main level of the House. Even its name has furred eyebrows. “I don’t like that people refer to it as the ‘Elmo painting...