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While that was bad enough, the heist turned tragic when Boston police , officer William Schroeder, 42, responded to a silent alarm and William Gilday Jr., one of the ex-cons, who was parked as a lookout across the street, unloaded his submachine gun into Schroeder's back. In the eyes of the law, Power might as well have committed the crime. Like many other states, Massachusetts has a rule that says if someone is killed in the course of a serious crime, all participants can be charged with murder. The three men were captured, but Saxe and Power got away...
Students Interviewed yesterday would not release the names of the two students involved in the Fu dog heist...
Plots eventually intrude in both books -- a jail term in Social Disease, a heist at L.L. Bean in I'll Take It -- but these are as unwelcome as the roast beef a heedless hostess might plop on Paul's dinner plate. The M&M's of bon mots are the real nourishment. Which suggests a criticism of Rudnick's prose: it's all candy. Wouldn't a truly serious author hang crape on Guy and Venice, or Hedy and her sisters? But Rudnick sees them as variations on the Addams family: they may be crazy, but they have...
...point in the play, Donny and Teach plan a petty heist. The characters, who are so marginal and out of touch, never discuss the moral import of their theft. All they do is worry that they might be caught. Society has neglected them for so long that they perceive no limits to their actions and are unconcerned with the effects they might have on others...
Without half trying, Simple Men synthesizes outlaw cinema. It has a quest and a heist. It offers analysis of both Madonna (who "exploits her sexuality on her own terms; that means she names the price") and the Madonna ("She has a nice personality; she's also the Mother of God"). It has outlaws and in- laws. It's got tough guys waxing poetic and stupid guys acting tough. If Clint Eastwood were to play all the roles in a Woody Allen movie, it would sound like this: a flinty reading of home truths after the home burned down. "There...