Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subterranean society of professional crime, the fence is an economic necessity. Godfather to rip-off artists ranging from truck hijackers to snatch-and-grab junkies, the fence buys their "swag" (stolen goods) for a fraction of its value and unloads it swiftly at slightly below wholesale to respectable folks eager for a bargain. Though he is the underworld's most visible agent, the fence has generally escaped the scrutiny of journalists, cameras and sociologists. Until recently, that is. In The Professional Fence (Free Press; $8.95), Sociologist Carl B. Klockars offers the latest word on the ancient practice of selling...
...group hunted hard to find a play equally accommodating to its fourteen members. After a prolonged search they gave up and settled for a snatch of Shaw-the second act of Major Barbara-and a tantalizing Sam Shepard encounter session, Icarus' Mother...
...Faculty Council this week seemed to snatch defeat from the jaws of a victory for the moderate students who have been pushing since December for changes in the dormant Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...
...about the Fillet-O-Fish Sailing Regatta. Maybe they'll replace the pot of beans with a large order of French fries for that annual Boston collegiate hockey tournament in the Garden. Colonel Sanders instead of Snatch...
Discharged from prison, Lou Jean Poplin-sometime beautician, full-time nudzh-must first spring her husband Clovis (William Atherton) from the minimum-security prison where he is serving a short term for sundry low crimes and misdemeanors, then help him snatch a car to transport them...