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...restraint disgusts his pseudo-sophisticate hosts. An art dealer, Shaw baits him maliciously until his braggadaccio traps him into promising an exhibition of non-existent marble sculptures the following morning. So the irrepressible Gaudier Brzeska drags a simpering homosexual friend out of bed rushes to a cemetery to steal his stone and starts fiendishly to sculpt. He pours sweat and blither in a steady stream of inspiration until the light of dawn the impossible stands before him--a revolutionary bus of Beauty Shaw of course, never shows up So the by now manic messiah carts his statue through a violent...
Fifth Dimension. The Fifth Dimension made it big by stealing all of Laura Nyro's songs. Laura's singing oldies with Patti and the Bluebelles, so there aren't any more songs to steal. The Dimension's been keeping a low profile, ever since "One Less Bell to Answer" but I figure the middle of the road is due for a boost. Besides, my mom likes them as much as she likes...
...route to a Virginia City destination (which they don't arrive at in the course of the film), they discover that they don't really want to live free off the land, only steal from it. Tragedy strikes, and comedy. The youngest foul-mouthed wanderer gets his head blown open for trying to steal a pie off a farmhouse windowsill; a raid on a stagecoach is foiled when the planned decoy enters the carriage and rides away. Except for Jake and Drew, the group breaks apart with several ingenious brands of double-cross...
...particularly easy subject for fiction. Miss Stead is no Balzac or Dickens; on the other hand, she is no Louis Auchincloss either. She is, however, obviously mesmerized by money and her sharpest writing is comment about it. "Certainly I understand the class war," says a rich old countess. "We steal from the pigs: the pigs know they want truffles and we want truffles when we see the pigs with them. Money is truffles...
...gets as far as St. Joseph before throwing in with a band of rapscallions on their way West. Drew takes overbearing pride in being an upright Methodist. He struggles to stay on the straight and narrow as his cronies teach him to lie, to steal, to live by his wits and, those failing, his gun. His principles are most frequently mocked and compromised by the gang leader (Jeff Bridges), with whom he strikes up the kind of mutually antagonistic friendship often found in such films of Howard Hawks as Rio Bravo and Red River. Each member of the gang...