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Also, all the Democrats who did win had to wave the American flag, posture as pious champions of the Silent Majority, and in reality virtually steal Agnew's gams plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 7, 1970 | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...England, an age of specialization has produced some thieves in a recondite line of work. They steal antique weather vanes and even those that merely look antique. In the past three years, about 100 vanes have disappeared, many of them the elaborate work of 18th and 19th century coppersmiths. The vanes can sell for hundreds of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Weather Vane Caper | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...question being Peter Raby's adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers. And given that Raby renders the venerable old Dumas novel in a succession of Forty, Count em, Forty, Swiftly Moving and Breathtakingly Dramatic Scenes-See D'Artagnan outwit the Cardinal's guards! See Milady de Winter steal the Queen's jewels from the Duke of Buckingham! See Con-stance, wife of Bonacieux, drink the fatal glass of wine!-George Hamlin's current Loeb production works up virtually every type of scene Polonius could ever want to see. It's a Baskin-Robbins approach to theatre and it includes...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Theatre The Three Musketeers at the Loeb | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

Despite their success, however, the holdup men were essentially amateurs. In all their jobs, they managed to steal a total of only $275,000. And when the three men were caught last week, they were so eager to boast about their exploits that they implicated the other seven gang members, four of whom had already bungled their way into jail on other charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Tempting the Devil | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...they still make movies like this. The question is why. Surely there is a considerable surplus of these caper epics, involving the intricate mechanics of some complicated robbery scheme and the assorted tensions and rivalries, professional or romantic, among the people who carry them through. Gambit, Topkapi, How to Steal a Million­the list seems endless. But the genre is not, as Perfect Friday proves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Surplus of Capers | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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