Word: pickpocketings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Christmas is also the busy season for pickpockets and con men, for the bogus-check casher, the passer of counterfeit money and the fraudulent user of credit cards. According to Police Lieut. Allen Gore of New York City, all of these criminals are difficult to spot. "No one looks like a pickpocket or a shoplifter," says he. "There are no 'types.' " Gore advises that the best way for men to protect their money is to carry it in a shirt pocket or the inside pocket of a jacket; women should bury their wallets deep in their handbags after...
...wooden melodramas about moviemaking, like The Carpetbaggers or Harlow. Perhaps the film was always meant to be funny. On the other hand, perhaps its producers wanted to broaden the humor because the script was enriched with such heady verbiage as "I'll rummage through your soul like a pickpocket through a stolen purse." Or because one way of dealing with Kim Novak's acting is to pretend that it was meant to be that way. In any case, the decision to spoof it up was the only course possible, short of dropping the whole project...
Evil "is not to be a thief but to be a petty pickpocket; not to be a murderer but to be an incompetent murderer...
...revolt. Untung, whose name in Indonesian means "lucky," pushed nomenclature too far: riding on a bus also named Lucky, Untung was recognized near the Middle Java town of Semarang by two soldiers. Untung vaulted from the bus window but was nabbed by fellow passengers, who took him for a pickpocket and beat him severely before surrendering him to the soldiers. At week's end Untung was back in Djakarta for interrogation and probably ultimate execution. But not before Nasution's inquisitors find out for certain if it was really Peking who put Untung...
...Dreyer's silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), the numerous films about the martyred Maid of Orleans have contributed very little to art and less to the box office. The subject thus seems a natural for French Director Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket), who for more than two decades has been making austere, praiseworthy, but unpopular movies. Bresson's treatment of the Trial of Joan is characteristically ascetic; but it is also quintessential history, unique and timeless, graced with a master's touch...