Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Savings and loan officers in Texas, all with six-figure salaries and bonuses, loot their institution to buy Rolls-Royces and trips to Paris...
...Orton had lived a bit longer, he might have done justice in his work to the themes that informed his 16 years with Halliwell: love vs. jealousy, career vs. home life, husband vs. wife, son vs. mother. As it was, he wrote three full-length plays (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot, What the Butler Saw) that subverted old genres and modern society with a cheekily amoral wit. Now Alan Bennett has dramatized Orton's life in Prick Up Your Ears, based on John Lahr's nifty biography. Both works take their title from a farce Orton planned to write. The title...
...every resident was paid an annual "dividend" of some $500 merely for living in the state. The big spenders in Juneau also voted to give residents 65 and older an additional $250 each month as a longevity bonus. Says Cowper: "Government was in the business of dividing up the loot...
...James Brothers--the one with the verse about the "dirty little coward" who killed Mr. James. And is there anyone who hasn't rooted for Paul Newman and Robert Redford against the marshals who would keep Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from living it up on stolen loot...
...locks her less favored son out of the house for days, and schemes to get money from her rich but miserly father in Utah. One summer she sends her two teenage boys, a pair of grungy rejects from the Dead End Kids, to stay with Gramps and steal his loot. But when he discovers the treachery and cuts off the flow of funds, Frances Schreuder orders one of her sons to murder...