Word: filches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect some 21st century director to filch a scene from Little Vera the way David Lean, Brian De Palma and others have quoted the Odessa Steps sequence from Eisenstein's Potemkin. For one thing, critical realism, the style of most glasnost films, eschews the bold editing effects and pristine iconography of the Soviet silents. But style is subordinate to message just now: the priority is journalism, not art. To U.S. eyes, the rebels without a cause in an alienated-teen drama like Valeri Ogorodnikov's The Burglar are a sight as nostalgic as Hula-Hoops. But in the U.S.S.R. these...
...even in this Spielberg war, wisdom brings bitter lessons. It teaches Jim that he may -- must -- filch food from the dying and take shoes from the dead. When P-51s zoom above him, the plane-crazy boy crash-dives into delirium; his dreams have singed him by flying too close, poisoned him with their oil and cordite. Alone with an ailing woman (Miranda Richardson), who stokes his first erotic fantasies, Jim looks up and sees the atomic blast over Hiroshima as a blazing crystal vision. Even at the end, when a plane drops bundles of Spam and Luckies like...
...security guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow that in November 1985 he was detached for special duty at the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Geneva. Last week Lonetree sat in a brig at the Marine base at Quantico, Va., suspected by his superiors of helping the Soviet KGB filch classified U.S. documents from diplomatic offices in Moscow and Vienna...
...DIDN'T anyone filch a few hundred grand...
...those companies, Frito-Lay, the maker of GrandMa's Rich'n Chewy, has now countersued P & G for trying to eliminate competition in the $2.4 billion-a-year packaged-cookie industry. While denying that an employee had misrepresented himself in order to filch secrets, Frito-Lay admitted that it sent a worker to photograph the outside of a Duncan Hines bakery. But, the firm said, the man's college-age son acted without its knowledge when he walked into the plant and asked for unbaked dough. Frito-Lay said it destroyed both the dough and the photos...