Word: jailbreak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sight is another fine mess Elmore Leonard has got us into. Basically it's about a congenital bank robber named Jack Foley (George Clooney) who, in the course of a jailbreak, meets and falls into unlikely love with a U.S. marshal named Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez). He's the kind of guy who works unarmed except for his gift of smooth gab. She's the kind of girl whose idea of a nice present from her dad is a new pistol. (The actors are terrific and sexy together...
...midst of space. The romantic conception of love, which implies a breaking away and a catastrophe, is the only one we know today because everything in our society prevents love from being a free choice... [I]f women attempt a free choice, it must be a kind of jailbreak...
Mary Letourneau's jailbreak--out of the gulag of troubled suburban marriage, out of her grownup's work as 37-year-old wife and mother, out of her moral and professional responsibilities, out of the Ozzie-and-Harriet zone altogether--landed her in the Washington Corrections Center for Women. No matter. Jail is freedom to outlaw love...
...first permanent assignment. He was 26, made $30,000 and walked to the FBI office from "a cockroach apartment" in Beacon Hill. In his first big case, he laid the groundwork that led to the arrest of a man on charges related to drugs, an attempted jailbreak and the theft of the Mead paintings. Falzon had bagged Myles Connor...
...with Darci and Darly's escape from prison last Monday, Brazil's western frontier has regained its reputation for lawlessness. Despite repeated warnings that lax security made a jailbreak all but inevitable, state and federal government officials paid no attention. Once again, rubber tappers fear more violence. "This place could turn into a war zone," warned Gumercindo Rodrigues of the Xapuri Rural Workers' Union. Inundated with protests from environmental groups, the Brazilian government vowed to recapture the gunmen. "They'll never find them," predicted Mendes' widow Ilzamar, who accused local authorities of complicity in the escape. A police manhunt...