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Word: holdup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said she thinks such a holdup would beunlikely...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Full Merger Weeks Away | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Dragon. "A man was down. Dad got out, and someone gave him a jacket to put under the guy's head." End of incident. Skeeter Garcia-Innocenti, then one of Marvin's riding students and now a Salinas police clerk, says there is no record of any such attempted holdup and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horse of a Different Color | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...CRIME: Admitted to walking into a bank on Dec. 26, announcing, "This is a holdup. I have a bomb" (luckily he didn't) and leaving with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Comeback, the irredeemable badman Parker returns, tougher than ever. His old target was the Mafia (you don't want even a bad-guy hero brutalizing widows and orphans). This time the cash cow is a sleazy televangelist. The holdup goes like grease, netting several garbage bags full of bucks donated by the pious, when suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NAUGHTY, BUT ALSO NICE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

Stone calls U Turn a scorpions-in-a-bucket movie; deadly critters snap at one another until only the strongest (or the top billed) survives. It also honors the familiar tropes of hombre films, from the requisite convenience-store holdup and multiple murder to a strident Ennio Morricone score (with the banshee harmonica from his Sergio Leone westerns). There's also a waitress named Flo. Stone swathes all this menace in his patented white-hot style: slo-mo, echoing voices, flashbacks that flick like lightning, cartoon sound effects (when the Mustang is mentioned, you'll hear a horse whinny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURAL BORN THRILLER | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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