Word: crookes
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...many different budgets out and so many different baselines and such complexity . .. people are getting from A to B and it's not clear how they're getting there. It's not clear how we got there. [One deficit estimate was reached] "by hook or by crook, mostly the latter...
...everyone should know by now, and too few seem to remember, very little in this world ever turns out to be precisely what it seems to be. Michael (Paul Newman) is an independent cuss, all right, but no crook. And Megan (Sally Field) is not so crazily ambitious that she would, just to take a random example, fabricate a story about a child heroin addict in hopes of tugging at a Pulitzer jury's heartstrings. Certainly she would not stoop to selling papers by retailing gossip about an incumbent President's bugging a President-elect's bedroom...
Today's FBI is not a resumption of the FBI's previous fictional venture The FBI, an ABC series from 1965 to 1974. Instead, the bureau wants the new show to stress how much crook catching has changed. Said Young: "We thought it would be an excellent way to tell people about the kinds of cases we're working on today [notably political corruption, white-collar fraud and organized crime] and to let people see there are women in the FBI, there are blacks in the FBI. This, we hope, would go a long...
Hotel rooms have always been havens for thieves, as Actress Jaclyn Smith, former star of the Charlie's Angels television show, found out earlier this month when a crook slipped into her suite at London's Berkeley Hotel and made off with rings, bracelets and a necklace worth about...
...which is now a penal colony, a sort of Devil's Island-on-the-Hudson. The President (Donald Pleasance) survives the crash only to be taken hostage by the prisoners. From their headquarters on Liberty Island (home of the Statue of...), the police hire an ex-military hero turned crook. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to rescue the leader of the free world. He has 24 hours to make the rescue, because the Leader of the Free World must appear by then at the Hartford Summit Conference (Hartlord!? Yeah, and the next summer Olympics are going to be in Elizabeth...