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Word: lootings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mild bunch descends on the cash resources of NATO, which are being moved from France to Belgium via freight train. Three separate elements pursue the loot: a tough Mafioso (Eli Wallach), two French thieves (Bourvil and Jean-Paul Belmondo) and an elegant supercriminal (David Niven) known respectfully as "the Brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mild Bunch | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

CRIMES OF PASSION. The late British playwright Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot) was much possessed by death, which he treats in these two one-acters with a grisly sense of humor. He died before he had mastered his craft, but rarely in recent years has the theater lost such an original imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Nov. 14, 1969 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...free of what? Certainly not of American yahoo aspirations-Billy intends to buy a home in Florida with his share of the loot. This is what Hopper insists on in his interviews: that when Wyatt says to Billy "We blew it" what they're really saying is that they're no different from the two guys in the truck. That's true, but that's not what the film says at all. The good guys are portrayed as sensitive loner types: they know grass isn't addictive: they're nice to girls: they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Easy Rider at the Charles Street Cinema | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...stand.") Billy and Wyatt die because they are free, like all good guys. (Hanson says: "They're scared of what you represent to them--freedom.") But free of what? Certainly not of American yahoo aspirations--Billy intends to buy a home in Florida with his share of the loot. This is what Hopper insists on in his interviews: that when Wyatt says to Billy "We blew it" what they're really saying is that they're no different from the two guys in the truck. That's true, but that's not what the film says at all. The good...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Easy Rider | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

...younger. There was catching up to do. At a time when other men start to think about bifocals and social security, Wayne began to learn his lines for The Sons of Katie Elder, a typically nuance-free Wayne western about four lusty, brawling brothers. But that was just for loot. Now that he was back on his feet, some things were griping him. The moral backslide, for one. He stumped for his friends Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. "I said there was a tall, lanky kid that led 150 airplanes across Berlin. He was an actor, but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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