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...alone in a midtown hotel on West 44th Street-"just opposite the Algonquin" and only a few steps away from The New Yorker -and she has a canny, survivor's eye for a bargain. "The coffee at Bickford's is only 16?," she will say, "but they rob you at Childs." She broods on the differences between Woolworth's and Lamston...
...death of Michael Gaughan, 24, an Irish Republican Army member and Catholic Ulster's newest martyr, in an English prison could have proved the spark. Sentenced in 1971 to seven years for conspiring to rob a London bank for the I.R.A., Gaughan began a hunger strike March 30 as a show of solidarity with two other I.R.A. hunger strikers, Dolours and Marion Price (see box page 38). His weight had dropped from 160 Ibs. to 84 Ibs. The British government said that he died of pneumonia; Gaughan's family insisted that Michael died after prison doctors injured...
Harvard's top player, Ken Lindner, defeated senior Rick Woolworth, 6-3, 6-2, while second man John Ingard, a junior from Lincoln, Mass., edged Rob Tesar, 6-4, 7-6. Gary Reiner, in the third singles slot, downed Steve Davis...
Thieves is not so much about its easy and obvious morals--we are all thieves; you can rob with a pen too; bankers, when robbed, even cheat on the insurance claims; depression and capitalism force us all to continually steal from one another in order to live--as about some regained, lyric beauty from the lost, mythical world it shows. (Mythical worlds always seem to be lost ones, too.) At least what it does best is this: not say anything but show at least the outline of this world of surface and detail, of atmosphere and appearance...
...gang selling out Bowie to get leniency for her imprisoned husband--to bring about their ends. Robbery here is a profession like any other, but more subject to the weaknesses of love and personal necessity, more professionally proud than other professions, because it gets in your blood, makes you rob finally not for cash but for further notoriety. Robbers never know when to stop...