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WHEN IT CAME to raping and pillaging the works of others, no 20th-century playwright could hold a candle to Bertolt Brecht. The idiosyncratic pinko playwright ranged far and wide in his search for material to transform into his own dramas. He rivaled Shakespeare, the literary grave-robber supreme, in his audacious choice of sources. Twenties cinema, 18th century musicals, Renaissance history, Jack London stories; in Brecht's hands they all became the stuff of his proletarian "epic" theater...
...adjusted, depending on such variables as the use of a gun or how much money was stolen or whether the victim was elderly. The resulting number is plugged into a chart that weighs any previous record and comes out with a prescription for the sentence. For example, a bank robber starts by getting 19 penalty points, gets 1 added for taking $15,000 and 9 more for shooting someone and causing serious injury. If the robber served a 14-month prison term five years earlier, the total of 29 points would direct the judge to set a new sentence -- whir...
President Bok yesterday blasted the national press for sensationalizing the case of alleged robber Jose L. Razo...
...Golfer Craig Stadler came to own a $37,000 pair of trousers has nothing to do with a paroled bank robber who served 4 1/2 years in federal prison. Stadler's startling disqualification of two weeks ago is a complicated parable about the relative weight of rules. But it helps to view the affair from the vantage point of Rick Meissner, late of the golf circuit, who in lieu of a more traditional backer knocked off 19 savings and loans as he toured...
...could not after all. They left it to Mike Tyson, a primitive without stockings, who carves a hole in a towel and calls it a robe. Like boxing, he is an anachronism, a dusty old museum piece of 20, a black from Brooklyn's worst circumstances, an orphaned street robber found handcuffed to a reform-school radiator, and the youngest heavyweight champion of the world...