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...private eye, approached by an even seedier pal, starts looking for the proceeds of a famous jewel robbery out West a couple of decades after the theft. His allies and enemies in an ever shifting set of alliances include an aging femme fatale, a spunky tomboy and her ex-con grandfather, a trio of murderous Indians, a small-town newspaper editor and a crooked policeman. The plot and mood are vaguely reminiscent of The Maltese Falcon, except that, yes, there is a treasure...
...cute, coy lyrics, which in life would not tumble trippingly from the tongues of underprivileged youth. The wide-eyed wonder of city life may never have been more vibrantly shown than among the World War II-era sailors aprowl in On the Town. The comic chase among cops, con men, thugs and bathing beauties from High Button Shoes improves upon the fizzy Mack Sennett one-reelers that inspired...
...business will never be as peaceful as it once was. Surviving thrifts will have to compete with powerful rivals and satisfy a far more sophisticated customer than they did in the past. But if the industry shakes off its con artists and recaptures its basic prudence, those thrifts that remain might still do George Bailey proud...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art, which showed no great enthusiasm for Andy Warhol while he was alive, went after him con brio as soon as he was dead. The bakemeats were barely cold upon the funeral table when the word went out that MOMA was going to give Warhol the palladium of a full-scale retrospective -- his first in New York since the more premature effort that went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. Whether MOMA wanted to get the crowds before a rival museum did, or simply to get the job over...
...admitted. He charged $1,000, offering the money back if the student did not get in. For the consultant, it was a no-lose proposition: he did nothing, and if the student happened to get in, he kept the money. The I.E.C.A. tries to weed out con artists by requiring members to sign an ethics code. But that is unlikely to dissuade the unscrupulous...