Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...circumstances leading to Foley's jail break and prospective jewel theft are cleverly told in a series of flashbacks that gradually merge into his budding relationship with Sisco...
...genial Out of Sight is. Call it feel-good, call it sappy, but really, the movie is essentially cheerful. Everyone has fun. Bank robbing is a barrel of laughs, working for the Feds is better than taking out a personal ad, and, quick, inconvenient jail terms aside, only the really bad guys get punished. It's not fair for something this ideal, this utopian, this completely far-fetched to be so darn good. The illogical plot is utterly captivating from beginning to end, and the performances are superb. Out of Sight is really, well, out of sight...
...Police said Oliver eluded officers who came to the hospital -- until Tuesday, when she walked into the Orange County Jail and surrendered. She was detained briefly and was later released on $9,000 bond. No word on whether the trial will be webcast...
...sentence early in her story, as she explains her communion with unresponsive fish: "I had patience, the sort I suspect God has with people like me." Patience with her own demons came slowly. As a young woman, "a booze-sucking, pill-popping, dope-slamming druggie," she turned 18 in jail, jugged on a possession charge. She seems not to have known Grand-Papa Ernest well (and would say, no, no, not that Hemingway family, not me), though later she adored his younger brother, her great-uncle Leicester, and spent memorable days deep-sea fishing with...
...husky blond kid who says he has been drug free for 17 days, is fresh out of jail for stealing a handgun he planned to sell for drug cash. The gun belonged to his girlfriend's father, who happened to be a deputy sheriff. "How dumb can you get?" Tom asks. After flashing a driver's license photo to show how much thinner he was in his meth days, Tom effuses about his newfound love of Christ. A few minutes later he reaches into his jeans jacket and pulls out a scorched, homemade glass crank pipe...