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...background. Ignorantly mistaking a paper strip of a Picasso collage for the whole work of art. they tried to rip it off and ruined a work valued at more than $100,000. They got away with six Picassos, two Legers, a Miro and a Dufy. Loss, between damage and loot...
...Young & the Old. At their best, the bejeweled objects have a kind of glittering splendor, though they are mostly gaudy and garish. Art aside, they have a haunting eloquence that speaks of centuries of death and torture. They came from loot and levy, from wars that saw men and women massacred by the thousands, and boys and girls swept off to slavery. As the Turkish Historian Sead-dedin wrote of the capture of Constantinople by Mohammed in 1453: "Having received permission to loot, the soldiers thronged into the city with joyous hearts, and there, seizing the possessors and their families...
Today's brides have fewer engagement parties than in the past, are deluged instead by the 20th century equivalent of the dowry: showers of every variety, both practical and kooky, pour forth the loot. Karla Francisco, 21, a fourth-generation Californian who is marrying Thomas T. Hammond, 22, at her family's luxurious hacienda, had a relatively conventional kitchen shower. But other brides have an appliance shower, a crystal shower, a china shower, a paper shower, a lingerie shower, a bathroom shower, and "vice" shower (liquor, brandy, wine). In Detroit's suburban Bloomfield Hills, Patti Bugas...
...briefcase stolen. So far, so bloody; then the thief walks a few steps down the alley, a gas pipe thuds musically on a skull, and the mugger himself lies mugged. The new thief happily examines the briefcase-until a knife glints in the uncertain light. He gives the loot to the latest blackguard, when suddenly...
Scenes from the book are played out onscreen as a sort of parenthesis to the main action. Dads, really a prosaic accountant, is shown as an embezzler who, "desperate for just a little snooky-ookums," squanders his company's loot on his secretary. Auntie is a dipso who makes love to a skeleton. The family doctor is a leering, lolloping office Lothario. Mums is carrying on with her driving instructor, and the authoress herself is driven to wicked ways in the big city...