Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifteen minutes of one of those cartoon grins, like that on the mouse who is starstruck after getting hit by a sledgehammer--pure silly bliss. This is an okay emotion to have visited upon you, and this is a picture not to be missed. Playing at the Brattle with Stolen Kisses until Tuesday. The second show on the bill is a Truffaut tale about young Antoine Doinel; it's more incisively funny than the Malle film but not nearly as purging...
...have every June for the past 96 years, high school students in New York fearfully awaited a series of tough statewide achievement tests that is unique in the nation. But last week the annual nightmare suddenly turned into every schoolboy's dream. As stories spread that copies of stolen answer keys were being sold in and around many of New York City's high schools, embarrassed officials were forced to cancel nine of the 21 tests, including those for English, Hebrew, social studies, biology, chemistry, physics and three different levels of mathematics...
...wide answer-stealing conspiracy before examination day. The quick grant of immunity was apparently made in the belief that the four conspirators would implicate others. But the youths, as it turned out, had pulled off the caper by themselves. They had jimmied the principal's desk, stolen the key to the strongbox, and photostated the answer sheets. The copies were then sold at prices as high as $50 apiece. The two Solomon Schechter seniors were expelled from school; otherwise, all four got away from the great exam robbery scot free...
...assault on the prosecutorial mood of Watergate by Henry Kissinger in Salzburg undoubtedly gave President Nixon a hefty public relations lift last week in his struggle for survival. But at home, the impeachment process pushed on, producing revelations that in a less sensation-surfeited time would probably have stolen the nation's attention from the traveling presidential party. The new evidence solidly supported the already strong case that Nixon had engaged in a conspiracy to conceal his active role in the Watergate coverup...
...Bobbs-Merrill; $8.95) is one of the more ingenious rummagings through the great detective's lodgings at 221 B Baker Street. Rosenberg is an amateur literary bloodhound who once made his living heading off plagiarism suits for a film company-by proving that both plaintiff and defendant had stolen from older sources. He now makes a most convincing case that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ex-eye doctor who created the world's most famous sleuth, was really "a compulsive self-revealing allegorist." Rosenberg unearths both hard and agreeably circumstantial evidence that Conan Doyle modeled the evil Professor...