Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English burglar recently broke into a games manufacturing company and stole a fortune-in fake Monopoly money. The crook's confusion is not as funny as it sounds. So serious is Britain's continuing inflation that the current gibe by critics is that Monopoly pounds may soon be worth as much as the real thing...
...against him. "I have never seen a stronger extortion case," says U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson of Chicago, who was brought into the affair at the last minute to augment Justice's firepower. "If it had gone to trial, a conviction would have resulted. The man is a crook. The country is well...
...viewer is less fortunate. It may still be possible to get rich off a single idea, but it has never been possible to get a feature's worth of laughs out of one. Indeed, it is doubtful that the cop-crook reversal even qualifies, at this late date, as a genuinely good idea. Even if it did, it would require the support of dozens more-plot twists, character revelations, surprising situations and, above all, gags, gags, gags-to make it work...
Shouting Match. Turnblazer said that he had been present at a meeting on June 23, 1969, in the U.M.W.'s national headquarters, when Yablonski and Boyle had staged a shouting match that ended with each calling the other a crook. After Yablonski had left, Boyle took Pass and Turnblazer aside and told them: "This guy is going to murder us." Boyle then said that Yablonski "ought to be killed or done away with...
...moment a last horizon is penciled in a few inches from his nose. He designs the skiff along the firm specifications of his daydreams. He begins to fall in love with his girl. Most of all, he seeks links between himself, his father, and his grandfather, an energetic old crook of limit less cynicism, "bilking everyone and being down right fatherly about it." His preference in sexual foreplay is to jump around on a trampoline with his well-rounded middle-aged mistress...