Word: getaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fatal gunshots that greeted him, well-wishers surged onto the plane to welcome the former First Lady. Under a plan worked out by the Philippine national police and a coterie of retired Marcos loyalists, Imelda was escorted to a holding room for immigration and customs checks -- then a quick getaway...
...easy task. It requires practice, effort and, like most things in Japan, plenty of organization. At Mazda Motors, employees last spring were busy working out - their holiday plans. In an effort to get them to take time off, Mazda holds an annual "Dream Vacation Contest." Participants describe their ideal getaway, and the winners have their dreams come true at company expense. Last year's winner was Ryuzo Yamaguchi, a training manager, who wanted to enter an international ballroom-dance contest in Britain. With a $3,500 subsidy from Mazda, Yamaguchi and his wife waltzed and tangoed at London's Royal...
...Thelma who spots a really cute hitchhiker by the side of the road and decides she just has to have him. With him she has great sex for the first time in her life. To him -- he's a convenience-store bandit -- she loses all the getaway money that Louise had scraped together from her life savings. But what might have seemed yet another rape, this time of a more symbolic kind, turns out to be a fair exchange. The hitchhiker, using Thelma's hair dryer as a gun substitute, teaches her the tricks of his dubious trade; soon...
...only decent male the pair encounter is Hal (Harvey Keitel), the detective leading the chase. Mostly they come across a lunatic variety of hunks and lunks. When the men are not sexually objectifying or exploiting the ladies, they are ripping them off. A convenience-store bandit absconds with their getaway money, but not before teaching Thelma the tricks of his trade. "I feel I've got a knack for this," she muses after knocking over her first grocery store...
...robbers are crafty. Last year a man who stole $2,100 from a Brooklyn savings bank was mugged as he made his getaway on foot. He reported his loss to the police, who promptly arrested...