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...America: I window-peeped four years of our history. It was one long mobile stakeout and kick-the-door-in shakedown. I had a license to steal and a ticket to ride… I am going to tell you everything.” At the beginning of James Ellroy’s latest novel, “Blood’s a Rover,” the third installment of his “Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy,” one of the book’s three narrators proposes to retell the history of America between June...
...switches between Dillinger's exploits and the efforts of Hoover (Billy Crudup) and Purvis to track him down. The bureau, still in its infancy, was initially hamstrung by Hoover's insistence that his agents be stouthearted men, not wily, patient predators. Incompetence caused the bungling of more than one stakeout. Some agents also made use of what the bureau called "vigorous physical interviews" - torture during questioning - as if Billie were an al-Qaeda suspect at Guantnamo. (The one gasp from a preview audience exploded when Billie got viciously slapped by an FBI agent.) (See the top 25 crimes...
...article in Baylor’s student newspaper, the Lariat. The article, which began, “The Loose Cannon has been lassoed again,” detailed Godelia’s alleged misdeeds and reported that he had been arrested for trespassing after an 11-day stakeout...
...Macau's Mandarin Oriental Hotel are filled with a cadre of journalists looking distinctly slovenly in their luxurious surroundings. Tripods poke out from underneath couches, cameras rest on tables, and reporters crane their necks to stare down the corridors. The object of the press pack's Friday-night stakeout is not the Prime Minister of Portugal, here on a two-day visit to his country's former colony. Instead, we're hoping to catch a glimpse of a man known for getting busted trying to sneak into Japan to visit Tokyo Disneyland and for his reported ability to drink...
...Macau's Mandarin Oriental Hotel are filled with a cadre of journalists looking distinctly slovenly in their luxurious surroundings. Tripods poke out from underneath couches, cameras rest on tables and reporters crane their necks to stare down the corridors. The object of the press pack's Friday night stakeout is not the Prime Minister of Portugal, here on a two-day visit to his country's former colony. Instead, we're hoping to catch a glimpse of a man known for getting busted trying to sneak into Japan to visit Tokyo Disney, and for his ability to drink 10 boilermakers...