Word: filches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Susan Penhaligon), a young nun who preaches a platform of free love. With the help of her Haldeman-Ehrlichman like cronies (Geraldine Page and Anne Jackson), Jackson engineers a scheme to record her rival's conversations and steal love letters from her sewing basket. Naturally, the Jesuits hired to filch the evidence are caught in the act, and the nuns decide on cover-up rather than confession...
Since they cannot crack Broadway, Harry and Walter decide the next best thing would be to break into a bank vault. Having met a notorious gentleman thief (Michael Caine) during a prison stretch, they filch the plans for his next job and try to beat him to it. Their unlikely accomplices: a radical newspaper editor (Diane Keaton) and her band of ragged reformers, who want to use the loot to set up a milk fund for New York City's poor...
...complex and expensive even for him. He reread the novel several times, "looking for traps, making sure it was do-able." With typically elaborate caution, he got Warners' backing on the basis of an outline in which names, places and dates were changed so no one could filch from him a story in the public domain. He then settled down to work on script and research. The latter may be, for him, the more important undertaking. "Stanley is voracious for information. He wants glorious choice," says his associate producer, Bernard Williams. Adds Costume Designer Milena Ca-nonero: "He wants...
...Nessen and the President might be well advised to open their Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and look up the definition of NIM. They would, with red faces, discover that NIM is a verb, defined: "to take from, steal, filch...
...necessarily that they are KGB agents under orders to set up Americans in compromising positions (too many U.S. businessmen overestimate their importance by assuming that they are being bugged or followed). But some of the women are industrial spies who are primed to wheedle technical information or filch documents from briefcases left beside beds...