Word: purloiner
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...thief, who leads a gang of wry rogues with names such as Clare d'Loon, Luke Warmwater and Justin Case. The light-fingered mob crisscrosses the globe and skips back and forth in history in search of national treasures to smuggle. Carmen may steal away to ancient China to purloin the Great Wall, hop ahead to medieval England to snitch the Magna Charta, or foray to present-day Uganda to abscond with a rare mountain gorilla...
...gags come in every size and shape. Small: Marty in full cowboy regalia except for his shoes, which are, incongruously, sneakers. Large: an Indian arrow having punctured the gas tank of their time machine (still that goofily customized DeLorean), Marty and Doc must purloin a locomotive to push the car up to warp speed. Romantic: frenetic Doc smitten by love for -- who else in a western? -- Mary Steenburgen's lovely schoolmarm. Deliciously anticipated: the appearance of Marty's bullying nemesis Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), this time got up as his distant ancestor Buford ("Mad Dog") Tannen, the dumbest...
...dangers of Soviet military espionage may be receding, but U.S. security officials are awakening to a spy threat from a different quarter: America's allies. According to U.S. officials, several foreign governments are employing their spy networks to purloin business secrets and give them to private industry. In a case brought to light last week in the French newsmagazine % L'Express, U.S. agents found evidence late last year that the French intelligence service Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure had recruited spies in the European branches of IBM, Texas Instruments and other U.S. electronics companies. American officials say DGSE...
...Merteuil (Glenn Close), secretes contempt under her frozen smile. Among the French aristocracy just before the Revolution, she is the stage manager of affections and deceptions, he the lickerish snake who literally hisses at his adversaries. Their cruel games will lead them to peek through keyholes, swipe bedroom keys, purloin letters, ruin lives. And write with feathers...
...MARCOS DYNASTY by Sterling Seagrave (Harper & Row; $22.50). This merciless account of the Philippine dictator's rise and fall poses many intriguing questions, answering some. Why did Ferdinand purloin billions of dollars? What did Imelda want with all those shoes...