Word: looted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous funny-moneyman known as Le Dab (Jean Gabin). They offer the aged but by no means senile counterfeiter a quarter share in the enterprise. "Two million dollars. Split it four ways and what have you got?" the brothelkeeper purrs. "Twenty years," Le Dab snorts, and demands half the loot. Slyly the three little pigs pretend to give in, but secretly they plan to eat high on the wolf before the deal is done. Or will the wolf make a meal of singed pork? Or will the censor insist on cooked goose...
...gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?" When two feudal armies clash, the impact knocks all their knightly paraphernalia to the ground. Instead of fighting, the knights scramble for loot, then make swaps. "What is war, after all," writes Calvino, "but the passing of more and more dented objects from hand to hand...
While trying to weave their way through this puzzle, the police, still intrigued with Moriarty's peculiar banking habits, began searching for more loot. Sure enough, in a garage not far from the original site, they found two paper sacks containing $168,675, also presumed to belong to Newsboy. This brought the total haul to $2,590,255. The discovery in turn sent swarms of children, old ladies and other assorted adventurers on a wild treasure hunt in Jersey City garages. Those citizens have to wait their turn, however. The state was interested in taking...
...sticks as close to him as a birthmark. He has a bigger caper in mind, lifting ?40,000 from a race track. To the syncopated beat of the score, the job goes off with tingling finesse. In a bleak, snow-bitten field, Johnny digs a hole and buries his loot; two reels later, when the crime syndicate crushes him, it proves to be his grave. The sound track mourns and mocks him with the teasing, empty sensuality of a saxophoney prison-ballad blues...
...police decided to search the car. There on the back seat, wrapped in newspapers, were eight rolled-up canvases by Cézanne that had been taken from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence last August. Valued at $2,000,000, the Cézannes were the loot in the most daring art theft since the Mono, Lisa disappeared from the Louvre 50 years...