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...police say, Hall took a day off, went to a bank in Queens and threatened to blow a teller's head off unless he handed over some cash. But as he fled the scene with $725, Hall dropped the Manila envelope he used to conceal a gun and a holdup note. The envelope was stamped with his employer's address, and although the address had been inked out, the FBI was able to track him down two weeks...
Judge James Browning Jr., who as a U.S. attorney in 1976 prosecuted Patty Hearst for a Symbionese Liberation Army bank holdup, is expected to turn the case over to a jury. Franklin-Lipsker explained to NBC why she is putting her family through such a wrenching ordeal. "There was nothing I could do at the time to protect Susan," she said. "I was the only other person there. And I just feel that I owe it to her to tell the truth." Whatever the outcome, it is hard to imagine the Franklins being like other families again. If they ever...
...robs crooks who have robbed other people. Thinks he's smart; isn't. Has grousy temper; will break the finger of an unsuspecting airport Hare Krishna. Can compose haiku during his heists -- "Breaking, entering/ The dark and lonely places/ Finding a big gun" -- but can't choreograph a decent holdup. Junior is an engaging monster, a clown in his own horror show. As his nemesis, Miami detective Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward), mutters, "I'd hate to meet Senior...
...capital in June 1988. The document essentially forbids any mineral exploration or development without agreement by all treaty participants. But most environmentalists are disturbed by any accord that recognizes even the possibility of oil drilling. Naturalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau has called the Wellington Convention "nothing more than a holdup on a planetary scale...
...bachelor sculptor of Celestial Navigation (1974), for example, panics if he has to go to the grocery store. The unhappy wife in Earthly Possessions (1977) plans to leave her husband but is relieved of the decision when she is kidnaped during a bank holdup. The eccentric hero of Morgan's Passing (1980) handles the problem of freedom not with flight but with flamboyant masquerades. The poignant conceit of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) is a beanery that resembles a kitchen where lonely people can assemble, if only for a meal. The Accidental Tourist (1985), Tyler's most winsome expression...