Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burglars were ready to go to work, it appeared, as soon as Yelamo routinely locked up the bank on Christmas Eve. Once he was gone, they set to their appointed task, knowing that almost 72 hours would elapse before they would be disturbed. Their base of operations was an empty apartment above the bank. From that vantage point, they disconnected four separate alarm systems. Then, just as in the 1956 movie Rififi, they drilled a hole in the floor to the bank's data-processing center. Dropping through, they approached their principal objective: the two doors leading...
...operation, were said to be confident that everything could be pulled together successfully, even though some smaller lenders in the U.S. and Western Europe were still seeking further assurances. Brazil's request for a new jumbo loan of $4.4 billion remained under consideration at New Year's Eve...
...Costume Institute have been both hot tickets and publicity bonanzas, and "La Belle Epoque" shows every sign of being a smash too. The women's gowns of the era, which by Vreeland's chronology developed in the last half of the 19th century and ended on the eve of the first World War, were opulent and imperial. They may have been the most extravagant fashion since the court of the Sun King. Worth, Doucet, Callot Soeurs, Poiret: the great fashion houses are all represented with gowns and dresses that seem to challenge, in some cases even exceed...
...plunge into gloom, as the beleaguered couple arrives in Buffalo to see Paula's parents (Burnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy.) In her old home, Paula finds her vague dread about wedlock confirmed: her parents now live in a sadly senescent twilight, paying little attention to each other on the eve of their 40th anniversary. And Richard has to suffer sleeping by himself on his honeymoon, not to mention Paula's mother's well-meaning attempt to serve him grits in homage to his Southern background. The fledgling marriage, nurtured in the hedonistic sunlight of California, begins to freeze...
According to police, Grimes, his wife and another couple had left a New Year's. Eve party at a nearby restaurant when they saw Sullivan beating a woman later identified as Sullivan's wife...