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Word: caperers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There seems to have been, as well, an attempt to cover up the caper. The theft occurred in April, but the bereft Bunny keepers said nothing publicly until two weeks ago, when Playboy offered a Hefty $50,000 reward for the wayward videos' safe return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hef's Hutch Much in Dutch | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...ballet and Broadway suavely merged high art with pop culture. Robbins has always been a spellbinding storyteller; the narrative clarity of each movement instantly draws viewers into the roiling emotional life of his characters. In his comic ballets, visual gags fly past like precision pies in a Keystone caper. This show proves he is back where he belongs, on a street that belongs to him: Jerome Robbins' Broadway. He has prepared meticulously for this moment: nine months of research, 75 days of rehearsal and seven weeks of preview performances. "I wasn't just putting shows on the way they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerome Robbins: Peter Pan Flies Again | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Balfour, once Hogan's editor at the Enquirer, asks him, "Remember when I sent you on the bread-and-water bit?" Hogan's ice-blue eyes glisten as he reinforces himself with a Guinness and recalls the caper: "I was a proper bum, with mud on me, crummy clothes, tacky shoes. In East Hampton ((N.Y.)), I went to a swank estate, and the maid pulled a gun on me the size of a howitzer." Balfour adds, "The White House turned him away. Gracie Mansion told him they didn't give out bread and water." Hogan whispers, "Only Burt Reynolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: The Rogues of Tabloid Valley | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...FISH CALLED WANDA. As writer and star, Monty Python Alumnus John Cleese leads a merrie band of jewelry thieves in a looney caper. Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline get the cartoon-comedy style just right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jul. 25, 1988 | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...same snazzy elan and offhand humor that make him such an affable and adept screen actor. He seems easy with it all: sweeping rock, laid-back jazz, Latin-inflected pop. Recently he reflected on the album on a film set in Hamilton, Mont., where he is starring in a caper comedy called Waiting for Salazar. (Acting, Blades insists, is merely a way of subsidizing his musical career.) "There are eleven different styles of songs on this record," he says. "I wanted to present a whole fabric of different colors and sounds and put them together on a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Ghosts And Magic | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

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