Word: robber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bank Robber Willie Sutton would have been intrigued: the First Bank & Trust of Harrisburg, Ill., is giving away guns. In lieu of cash interest, the bank some time ago began offering a collector's set of three Smith & Wesson revolvers (retail value: $1,300) for new certificates of deposit. To get the guns, a customer can deposit $2,000 for a ten-year term, for example, or $30,000 for six months. The bank estimates that the weapons are worth the equivalent of 10% annual interest over ten years. The idea has been so successful that the bank...
When the story returns to the present, the disinterred body of the dead despot repeatedly turns up in a garden. The grave robber is discovered to be the daughter of the woman with the missing husband. At her subsequent trial, the daughter argues that the actions of the past must not be buried, and is threatened with incarceration in a mental hospital -- a not uncommon fate of Soviet dissidents. The film ends with the woman's awakening to find it was all a dream. Repentance is exceptional because it is the first Soviet film to deal with Beria...
Because Prentice Rasheed knew so little about wiring, he avoided a charge last week. Rasheed is the Miami shopkeeper who became the focus of nationwide publicity last month after a booby trap in his store killed a would-be robber. He claimed that he thought his trap -- a pair of metal grates attached to an outlet by an extension cord -- would merely jolt intruders, not execute them. "I don't know the first thing about electrical wiring," Rasheed insists...
...Wise Men encompasses this center of influence with vigor and style. Walter Isaacson, the Nation editor of TIME, and Evan Thomas, Washington bureau chief for Newsweek, rely heavily on anecdotes and quotations to convey the nuances of personality and politics. Harriman, son of an American robber baron, was hampered by mumbled diction and a seeming inattention to details. Lovett, who would serve as Secretary of Defense, was a childhood friend of % Harriman's. Acheson, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953, was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than the general and President whose names...
WHAT HAPPENS when a weird guy with a gift for ingenious gadgetry meets a greedy, uptight bank-robber and his brainy lover? Malcolm, just off the boat from Down Under, tries to answer this very question in low-budget high style...