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Theft of office equipment is nothing new in Manhattan, but the latest rip-off story tears at the heart strings. Two well-dressed men walked into one of the fancier nursing homes on the Upper East Side during visiting hours and were soon afterward seen solicitously wheeling a 90-year-old woman out of the building, presumably for an afternoon airing. The bewildered lady was found sitting in her wheelchair, abandoned at a street corner, some time later. Her ostensibly helpful visitors had vanished-and so too had the electric typewriter they had apparently hidden under a blanket...
...darkness was certainly a factor," manager Robin Worth said. "At the end of Libby's match it was so dark they couldn't do anything fancier than find the ball and try to return it," she added...
...zucchini?even in unlikely places like Boston and New York City, where local gangs like the Renegades of East Harlem and the Savage Homicides of Brooklyn are growing vegetables. Pressure cookers and Ball jars for putting up preserves are selling well; so are ice cream makers and, for fancier cooks, the electric food processors that can puree anything except tennis balls...
...true brew fancier, amber waves of grain mean only one thing: the chief ingredient of beer. Hard-bitten guzzlers find that nothing quenches as happily as the kind that comes straight from the barrel. It can be found on draft, at taverns-the places Patrick Henry called "cradles of liberty." So they still are, only now the liberty is freedom of choice. There, across the stretches of mahogany are pump handles gleaming with the promise of alchemy. Somewhere at the other end of the pipe, malt, hops and yeast have been transformed into a series of heady potions...
...technological hopes for victory over the crazed killer are thwarted by his cunning and his quick reflexes. Even the usually infallible Beck is almost killed trying his hand against the killer. In the end, it is three quite ordinary men, unaided by anything fancier than nerve, some crude explosives and a simple plan of action, who do him in. There are plenty of spectacular thrills in the sequence, but it remains always in scale, an extension of the realistic tone that has distinguished the earlier portions of the film. Even the sniper's prowess is explicable. He is, himself...