Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attempted breakout from a courthouse in St. Louis, Dec. 15, 1959, as he was about to go on trial for a $120 holdup. Ray pushed an escort deputy violently away, fled through the building until a policeman stopped him at gunpoint...
...lavarone sought out Bobby Lowe and got him to cooperate on the case. But when Lowe learned the reputation of the accused man, he started to back out. His parents and his wife urged him not to testify. Then his brother, who had been shot in a gas station holdup and later was helped by a witness who agreed to testify for him, told Lowe to "think for yourself, be your own man." Lowe finally agreed to be a prosecution witness...
Joseph Gesualdo was angry. A veteran hoodlum facing murder and robbery charges resulting from a holdup in Long Beach, Calif., he had decided to dispense with a lawyer and conduct his own defense. After losing one ruling after another on the admissibility of evidence, Gesualdo gave up in disgust and announced he was resting his case. "What do you want to do with the remainder of your exhibits?" inquired the judge. Gesualdo shot back: "Give them to the Salvation Army...
Goretta works in an exhilaratingly quick, dry, uninflected style. He seems to have a horror of squeezing an emotion too hard or dwelling on a scene too long. He depicts a holdup with no more than a breathless glimpse of Pierre fleeing across a supermarket parking lot. He foreshadows the death of Pierre's father by juxtaposing sequences of youthful high spirits on a bicycle with views of the immobile face...
...safety nets of the rich, and they lack the street smarts to cut themselves in on such benefits of the poor as unemployment pay and food stamps. Since they are hopelessly overqualified for any available honest job, they turn to dishonest work. They begin a lucrative career as a holdup team...