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Christopher W. Bruce, crime analyst for the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), said, "One or two [break-ins] seem professional, while the others seem rather crude, just smash and grabs with not much savvy to them...
...smash and grab" is a break-in in which the thief breaks a window and then quickly takes the valuables lying about, Bruce said...
...first-night shows sell out a week in advance and the lines run out the doors of the theatre. I used to wish that I had been able to see Star Wars in the theatre in 1976, when it opened bigger than Batman and made the kind of unexpected smash that one almost never sees in any business...
...suitable spot where I could await the opening of the doors. In any case, my eyes flitted about the stuffy lobby, packed to the gills with presumably affluent moviegoers who could say two hours later that yes, they had attended the Boston premiere of the prospective Box Office Smash of 1977, "Star Wars." So this is how a big commercial film presents itself to the public these days, I mused. No skyscanning spotlights, no jewel-bedecked starlets traipsing out of glossy limos, no obligatory horde of autograph hounds hanging out their tongues in anticipation of the next celebrity to step...
...marvel the weight of trouble a family can buoy you through. I like her best when she admits, "I would come home from the office some days and want to smash the laptop over his head," rather than read his manuscript over Indian food, as she often did, carefully excising references to herself. But I admire that she honored the "for worse" part of her vows instead of running to Oprah when the world came crashing down around her. She turned down all television offers. "I didn't owe anyone an explanation of who I am." She's barreled through...