Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WORST BETWEEN-PERIOD SHOW: The Brown mascot appeared between the first and second periods of the second Crimson-Bruin ECAC playoff match. But he didn't show up afterward--someone had stolen his skates...
...Coens are superb writers and great technicians, and a great deal of the fun in the film stems from their smooth competence. They'll strap a Steadicam to anything that moves, and the results are sometimes extraordinary. Even if some of their visual jokes are stolen--like the Mad Biker blowing up bunnies with a hand grenade--they remain surprising and funny. The sequence in which H.I. is chased through a suburb by the police, a heaving armed albino convenience store clerk, and a pack of dogs deserves a special Oscar for Gratuitous Tension in a Feature Film...
...recognized him at once. It was Raymundo, the same scam artist who had stolen Getty's widow from me. I seethed inwardly, but knew there was no use in trying to stop him. No man knew how to please a senile old bag better than Raymundo. I was outclassed...
...thing, the sheer volume of the intelligence material Pollard stole and turned over to Israel. According to the Government, if all these documents were stacked in one place, the resulting mountain of paper would be 6 ft. wide, 6 ft. deep and 10 ft. high. Furthermore, the material stolen covered a wide range of highly sensitive subjects, from nuclear facilities in Iraq and Pakistan to Soviet surface-to- air-missile capabilities to the antiaircraft defenses around the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis. Israel later staged an air attack on the P.L.O. buildings, killing at least 60 Tunisians and Palestinians...
...Israeli contacts, but the State Department argued that American relations with Israel should receive primary consideration. Secretary of State George Shultz spoke of Israeli "cooperation" on the case, and State Department Legal Adviser Abraham Sofaer headed a delegation that was sent to Israel to collect the documents Pollard had stolen. According to court records, Sofaer returned with a mere 163 documents out of the thousands that had been taken...