Word: robbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn of the century, when robber barons were amassing embarrassingly large fortunes, charity sometimes served as a form of atonement, a guilt tax for living so well. Nowadays, says David Rockefeller, who as chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has overseen the donation of $342 million of his family's immense wealth to worthy causes, philanthropy can be, well...
...fashioned digging also won a Pulitzer for the Miami Herald's Edna Buchanan, a police reporter for 20 years who can turn a 7-Eleven stickup into a compelling tale of Balzacian detail that illuminates the lives of robber and victim alike. The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader earned its first Pulitzer for a series that revealed payoffs to University of Kentucky basketball players. Jeffrey Marx, who shared the award with Michael York, is only 23 years...
...great roles were bit players shoved center stage, who without power or grace had to make do with the peculiar strengths of the insignificant. The confused inventor in The Man in the White Suit, the "fubsy" robber in The Lavender Hill Mob, and most especially Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, are all men who have greatness thrust upon them. Olivier would have made Col. Nicholson a hero; Guinness kept him a man. It is fitting, somehow, that after a great and varied career--one which won him an Oscar and knighthood--most movie-goers remember...
...Arena. In that reappraisal, Pintilie awakened contemporary audiences to the play's political dimensions, its defense of civil liberties in a nation beset by conspiracies and denunciations. In Pintilie's free but faithful adaptation of The Wild Duck, the playgoer finds himself immersed in a world of coarse, rapacious robber barons who believe the disgrace in any swindle lies in getting caught. The most pitiable figure imaginable to them is someone who has fallen from luxury. Thus the privation of the ruined Ekdal family and the shame they feel at taking handouts from their former business partners, the Werles, permeate...
...most recent incident on Wednesday, a man accosted one of the victims, whose names are being withheld, while the student left the garage at 1:45 p.m. Threatening the student with what he said was a hidden knife, the robber made away with $22, police said...