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Word: heisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine eye for the human cartoon. Allen, playing the master criminal of his youthful fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally there was a flat, tasteless line, but audiences howled, and the film made money. Allen took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...pile of clothes, tries to make a run for it. In a sleeping bag is a naked 21-year-old girl, who refuses to give her name. Also present are six hippiesque men and a woman, who say that Christian's mother offered them each $10,000 "to heist the boy" for a while (there are enough provisions in camp for several months). After a courtroom scene, in which the father appeals to have Christian put in his custody (he has been sharing the boy with the mother), the judge postpones the hearing for a month and for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1972 | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...Rock apparently aimed to be the caper movie to end them all. Unfortunately, it probably won't. William Goldman has transferred the patty-cake banter of his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to contemporary New York City, where he unleashes a quartet of schlemiel heist men (Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand). Their task is to lift a gem called the Sahara stone and turn it over to the pompous African diplomat (Moses Gunn) who contracted for the job. They go to a lot of elaborate trouble to break into places. The gimmick is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Schlemiel Quartet | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...bringing life to this rather threadbare theme, Renek is spare, painful and hilariously funny. Heck's bank heist, his hair-raising rooftop and back-alley escape, not to mention a rollicking love scene with Lola in a huge beer vat, unroll with a vitality that can only be de scribed as up-to-date Dickensian. For Heck, the future is ambiguous. But Renek's account of his hero's battle with the dehumanizing forces of modern cit ies is a small but notable literary victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Theft as Therapy | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...Baker Street. It was a case similar to the episode in which Holmes captured two tunneling bank crooks in A. Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League -"a three-pipe problem," as Dr. Watson would have called it. But although policemen could actually hear the real-life heist taking place over a ham operator's receiver, they took nearly 36 hours to locate the scene of the crime. By then, the thieves had made off with at least $500,000 in valuables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Red-Faced League | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

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