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...strict segregation of all youngsters from 15 to 16 years of age, easily the most lawless group in the country; 3) the destruction of all automobiles, for they are stolen at the rate of half a million a year, and are a vital tool in just about every caper from bank robbery to smuggling; and 4) the elimination of big business, which wittingly and unwittingly encourages illegal financial operations and offers attractive investment opportunities to big-time racketeers...
...story of criminals who meet a Bad End after the Big Caper is nothing new. What keeps Crook going straight are the poignant performances of the four French unknowns who play the hoods, and the sensitive direction of Claude Lelouche (A Man and A Woman). At 30, Lelouche understands only too well the movie-maimed members of his own generation who have turned their backs on life to make themselves over in the images of a reel world...
Curious Islanders. It was a swinging caper. Led by Maria Cristina Verrier, 27, a ye-ye blonde playwright who is a kind of cross between the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and the Dodge Rebellion, 18 members of the Movimiento Nueva Argentina climbed aboard a night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio Gallegos in Argentina's far south. Shortly before the DC-4 was due to land, they pulled pistols and burp guns out of their suit cases, ordered the pilot to change course for Port Stanley, capital of the Falk land Islands. If all went according to plan, they figured...
Neither latter-day account of the Cambodia caper is written in spite. Langlois cites the run-in with the laws of French colonial bureaucracy as the start of Malraux's fervent anticolonialism. Indeed, he did return to Indochina to start an independence movement, beginning his long flirtation with revolutionaries that led him to fight in China during the 1920s and Spain in the 1930s. Clara is hardly bitter; she even seeks to justify the theft. "Love," says she, "gives one rights...
...majesty seems to have found the dividing line between permissible and impermissible exposure of female breasts. The topless-bathing-suit caper may be finally resolved-at least in California...