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...Jules Dassin, who died this week in Athens at 96, you could say he was the prime developer of the movie crime caper, and leave it at that. His 1955 Rififi, with its wordless, minutely-detailed, half-hour jewel robbery, and the 1964 Topkapi, with an even more elaborate heist, inspired dozens of imitations, in films from The Killing, Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job to The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible 2 and that mini-masterpiece of stop-motion animation, Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers. If some star is hanging from a rope over riches protected...
...Rififi, in which four men break into a jewelry store through the ceiling, codified the caper plot: it shows how they plan to do it, then shows how they do it, then shows how they get caught. Except for the gimmick of the silent half-hour, and broad comic turns from a few supporting players, the film plays the material straight. Epiphanies emerge naturally, like the moments when the gang, in the apartment above the shop, chisels a hole in the floor, and we get our first, eerily surreal view of the jewelry premises, as an umbrella is lowered through...
Participants who reacted “spitefully” to their partners’ defection tended to be the least successful after an hour of playing the game. Although exacting punishment can be satisfying in the short term, the researchers concluded, such behavior causes even more selfish behavior in the long run—and that leaves both participants worse...
...evening rush hour in New York City. 42nd St. was packed, and I was hoping I would make the bus. His voice came out of the crowd...
...Guests are treated to an hour-long musical theater piece about the town's history and progress. When they leave the 1,200-seat auditorium, the show's honky tonk-meets-Peking opera soundtrack blares through loudspeakers, echoing across tidy rows of red-roofed, three-storey homes...