Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Connor says Donati, who, he assumes, hired two mugs to actually carry out the theft, initially intended to use the loot as a bargaining chip, though he won't say for what. "Then they got a tremendous offer for it," he says. Not from the Irish Republican Army, a name that has surfaced over the years, and not "from, per se, a political organization. But something a little more powerful than just a wealthy, eccentric collector." Whatever, it fell through, and the pieces were put into storage. Connor says Donati and Houghton later told him that if anything happened...
...Mashberg of the Boston Herald didn't know what to make of the call on Aug. 18. Someone was asking him if he wanted to go for a ride, under cover of darkness, and see some of the stolen Gardner loot. He said yes, "but as far as I knew this was a hoax, and I expected to be shown a velvet Elvis." They met in a deserted place. There were two cars, Mashberg says, one man in each. And they took him to a warehouse...
...Greatest Works of Art" was recently published by BasicBooks (despite having been rejected by 30 previous publishers prior to the book's success in France), and The New York Times Arts section featured Feliciano last week in an article titled, "A Bulldog on the Heels of Lost Nazi Loot". But how scandalous were Feliciano's findings? Should the art world really be up in arms about Nazi looted art that is still in French museums? As it turns out, the French have behaved quite responsibly under the circumstances. The intrepid Feliciano seems to have raised a lot of smoke around...
...benefits (Social Security, Medicare) toward bnkruptcy. Moreover, there is not the slightest sign this mind-set will change. So maybe I should collect that pension after all. It's robbery, and I know it. But why should I be the only sap who spurns a share of the loot...
Ford has generated a lot of loot for Paramount over the years, playing various Indiana Jones or Tom Clancy heroes. The star reminded Paramount of that in a Forceful call to studio boss Jonathan Dolgen, in which he requested that Dolgen kindly get Titanic the hell out of his way. The summer is already crowded with costly cinematic icebergs, including Conspiracy Theory, starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, which is also supposed to open on July...