Word: heist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door had been welded shut-from the inside. Behind it, a group of meticulous weekend robbers had pulled off what French headlines promptly dubbed le fric-frac du siècle (the heist of the century). In daring and imagination, it was in a class with some of the best heist movies ever made. The hoods-police estimate that ten people were involved-had used five tons of excavation and safecracking equipment to get at an estimated $10 million in currency and valuables stored in nine safes and 317 of the bank's 4,000 safe deposit boxes. Awed...
First there was the Great Train Robbery. Now, Britain seems to have experienced a Great Plane Robbery. Last week Scotland Yard detectives were scurrying after leads in a daring heist of foreign currencies worth some $3.7 million-a robbery second in size, in Britain, only to the famed $7 million Royal Mail coach grab of 1963. The latest theft was carried out in broad daylight at Heathrow Airport, and it was acutely embarrassing to a U.S.-owned security and air-freight firm, Purolator Services Ltd., which frequently ships large quantities of currency...
...Hearst has been snatched again. In Network, a thriller-with-a-message by Director Sidney Lumet, a young heiress named Mary Ann Gifford is kidnaped by an outfit called the Ecumenical Liberation Army, joins them in a bank robbery, then helps them try to sell a film of the heist to a big TV network, to be shown on its Mao Tse-tung Hour. During the negotiations, which lead to the crackup of a venerable anchorman, played by Peter Finch, Mary Ann cries out, "It's not the money that's important, it's the principle...
...been rippingly good, so the proprietor of P.F.F. Inc., a front for a fencing operation in Washington, D.C., decided to throw a party for customers to celebrate five months of successful traffic in stolen goods. But to the dismay of the purse snatchers, car thieves and assorted other heist artists who showed up for the blast, P.F.F. Inc. turned out to stand for Police-FBI Fencing Incognito, the largest and most successful undercover undertaking in the city's history. Last week when the party was over, 126 people had been arrested, among them an assistant federal prosecutor accused...
Were this carapace the whole story, Turtle Diary could pass as standard Disney scenario: unattached, eccentric adults involved in a quixotic caper because of their love for animals. William himself realizes that the turtle heist is "the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and human in a film with Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith." But he has a significant cavil: "That sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave...