Word: steal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headquarters for playing the "numbers," an illegal lottery. Centering around the life of a barber, his wife--a social service worker, and a boy he takes on to help him in the shop, the film involves dealings with gangsters involved in the numbers game and a failed attempt to steal money from them and flee to Georgia...
...tricky thing about pinning down opponents of randomization is that they tend to do what lawyers call "arguing by alternative." It's like defending a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "The fender isn't dented, and if it is, my client didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender was dented before he stole...
...Liaisons 1960 takes place at a beautiful ski resort where the characters smoothly glide about, manipulating each other in a highly artful fashion. Valmont manages to slyly keep Marianne's glass full of wine at a New Year's Eve party and then uses the excuse of midnight to steal a none-too-chaste kiss. The film makes ample use of symbols in its framing of the shots, particularly those of the food. The characters also find themselves mirrored and foreshadowed by a series of very suggestive paintings...
When Wooster tells the story about how he and his former fiancee, Florence Cray, try to steal his uncle Willoughby's manuscript and are foiled by his uncle and Edwin, the boy scout, the audience engages in non-stop laughter. Wooster's description of his uncle trying to make him confess is particularly hilarious. Wooster says: "It was most disgusting spectacle--this white-haired man who should have been thinking of the hereafter stood there lying like an actor...
...President Bok and Dean Jewett (the king and first minister) steal the vital power of deciding housing procedures from the masters (the feudal lords of Harvard), the university will inevitably degenerate into the same sort of rancorous discord that plagued eighteenth-century France...