Word: caperers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leeson caper gives capitalism a bad name. It is obscene that a single person can make and lose billions trading in derivatives and futures, an activity with absolutely no redeeming social or productive value whatsoever, while millions of people starve for want of a daily bowl of rice. I have no sympathy for Barings itself, but I do for its small investors. Sally Tobey Marshall, Minnesota AOL: SSTobey This shocking tale is almost unbelievable. This is not a crime committed by a young man alone; the responsibility for it goes right to Barings' top executives, whose lack of control...
...budget, Clinton ignored the looming NAFTA battle until after Labor Day. That gave the opposition time to lock up votes among House Democrats, who tend to be protectionist and mildly isolationist anyway. It also gave Clinton's own advisers, who were split over the wisdom of NAFTA, room to caper: several urged Clinton to pull out of the pact while he still had a chance and began planting the idea with party officials. The result was confusion...
Finnegan's Week by Joseph Wambaugh (Morrow; 348 pages) is a caper story of a kind, if getting through the workweek without sinking into occupational depression, or into yet another doomed marriage, can be called a caper. Finbar Finnegan is a San Diego cop with three ex-wives and a receding hairline, but only in real life. He hates his job and wants to be an actor, and as this cheerfully silly tale commences, he is mugging into the bathroom mirror, preparing to audition for the part of a contract killer on a TV cop show...
Erin comes across as too earnest, too demure and too tragically trapped to belong in a caper novel. But still you want to laugh and cheer when the plucky stripper finally gets the upper hand against Dilbeck: "Davey, I'm trying to cut you a break. Now if you'd prefer Plan B, that's fine. Have you ever been on Hard Copy?" If Hiaasen dialogue like that isn't worth the price of admission, then spend your late nights curled up with Proust...
Here is a surefire quiz to discover whether Strip Tease -- or any of the four earlier Florida caper novels by Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen -- belongs on your nightstand. If you find these characters funny, then Hiaasen...