Word: snatchings
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...Pucci, lightweight sportswear champion of the world, who predicted that it would not be long before bikini wearers, dissatisfied with halfway measures and interrupted suntans, would drop their modest pretensions along with the tops of their suits. And though the U.S.'s Rudi Gernreich was the first to snatch the idea off the rack and get it on the market (TIME, June 26), the evidence presented at the fall fashion collections in Florence last week showed that the Italians were not prepared to let the U.S. run off with the topless suit honors...
Then, of course, there are the concerts. Before audiences of 15,000, and with the aid of a giant speaker system and batteries of pretty lights the finest talents in the folk field present a brief snatch of what they can do. Appearances are agonizingly short, but they afford a survey of personalities and styles unmatched anywhere. Pictured here are some of their faces...
...nation. Their intended victim: Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, the former Princess Suga. She was to be held for $138,888, the biggest ransom in Japanese history. Disguised as a meter reader, one plotter entered and cased the princess' house. The gang moved in for the snatch three times, only to have something go awry. Before they could make a fourth try, the police were tipped off and collared the gang, building an airtight case with full confessions. Yet last spring the accused were convicted only of trespassing and illegal possession of weapons. They got mild sentences...
...then he finds so many other wonderful things to steal that the sight sobers him and he runs off to collect a more efficient colleague (Ann Sothern). Poor slob, he also collects three predatory teenagers, two boys and a girl, who tail him back to the mansion, snatch his boodle, conk him cold and, finding nothing better to do, kill...
Lady, in short, is just a routine withdrawal from Hollywood's bottomless blood bank, but it does give Olivia a grand chance to go ape. She gibbers, growls, simpers, screeches; rolls her eyes, tears her hair, rattles the bars, climbs the walls, bawls a snatch of Alouette, jabs a villain's eyes out with some jagged metal strips; and at the climax, screaming like mad, crawls through the nearest gutter in a $400 negligee. Attagirl, Ollie...