Word: crooking
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...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...
...bloody episodes are strung together with little continuity, merely reaffirming the adage that crime doesn't pay. Life is continually lost to no avail. The gangsters never even seem to have a chance to spend their money. How can we glorify Dillinger? He seems no more than a crook...
...Barrow gang did. Dillinger's violence is as bloody as Bonnie and Clyde's, its accents and clothes as realistic. Dillinger's blatant theft is the motif of the vengeful cop, relentlessly pursuing the outlaws, finally ambushing them with as little respect for human life as the cheapest crook...