Word: looted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coffees to choose from," says Biggs in the ad. "And when you're on the run like me, you appreciate a good cup of coffee." The Australian Broadcasting Tribunal has banned the ad, but Café de Rio's new star will get to keep the loot this time: a reported $10,000. Biggs' next endorsement: running shoes. "When you're on the run like...
...electronic detonator, a tear-gas canister and dye, all packed together so tightly that they fit inside the carved-out center of a stack of bills. Bank tellers keep the funny money in their cash drawers and slip it into a robber's bag along with the other loot. An electronic beam at the bank doors trips the detonator as the money is carried outside, and the hidden package explodes within...
...order in the streets has been erratic. Some shopkeepers complained of armed gangs demanding food or liquor, and rumors spread about car thefts and people forcing their way into gasoline lines at the point of a gun. On the bright side, as one merchant noted: "There is not much looting because there is nowhere to take the Loot. You can't steal it and go off to sell it elsewhere. We are all stuck here together...
...purists display the same enthusiasm for the Atari home version that your old English professor showed for the Classics Illustrated comic of Paradise Lost. No one denies, however, that the home market is where the major loot lies. Emerson, Coleco and Parker Brothers-who started a small living-room revolution with Monopoly in 1935-are jumping in. Mattel, which makes Atari's archcompetitor, Intellivision, says it has sold more than a million units at $249 and expects to be marketing 40 cartridges by December. One design will be based on an upcoming Disney movie called Tron, about a whiz...
...probably war loot, and Topic Mimara kept it (where else?) in a Zurich bank vault, while he lived (where else?) in Tangier. It was stored with a mass of fakes and rubbish that he also wanted to sell to the Met. It was very expensive at $600,000, an unheard-of price for a medieval object 20 years ago. But as Hoving reasoned, with the delicate sense of public relations that would mark his career at the Met, "Medieval art might be accorded a certain cachet by the expenditure of a stratospheric sum." Other museums, especially British ones, were after...