Word: thief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thief of Paris, 5:30, 9:35. That Man From...
...followed, however, by several other arrangements, TIME has learned. For example, the agency supplied information about Maheu in connection with his successful defamation suit against Hughes for calling him a thief. For their part, Hughes' employees kept the CIA informed about the activities of White House Plumber E. Howard Hunt. Among other things, they reported that he had interviewed ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard and planned to rifle the files of Las Vegas Publisher Hank Greenspun in search of information that might embarrass Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. At the time, ex-CIA Agent Hunt was also working for Robert...
...company. The contrast between this thought-provoking silence and the numbing intrusions on her spirit that we have witnessed in the film's opening sections could not be more vividly evoked. In a directorial career devoted largely to exploring the ways poverty assaults dignity (Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D), De Sica may have made more forceful statements, but never a more poignant one than he does here with the exquisite assistance of Florinda Bolkan...
...famous names, such as Cézanne's Thieves and the Donkey (see color page), that not one person in 10,000 would remember seeing on the museum wall years before. The chains of documentation for sales of art works are still remarkably weak. But sometimes a thief blunders and takes something unsalably famous. Siviero claims this is what happened in 1971, with the theft of Masaccio's Madonna with Child and Memling's Portrait of a Gentleman from Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. "The thieves found that even after two or three years they couldn...
What Coppola is attempting is a portrait of a world. The film has a warp in the story of young Vito Corleone and a woof in the story of his son Michael separated by about 30 years. Vito (Robert DeNiro) takes the first steps on the ascent from petty thief to capo di rutti capi in a series of flash-backs interspersed in the main action. Here, Michael (Al Pacino) has to deal with the legacy of his father--an extra-legal fiefdom doing business on a scale Exxon wouldn't sneeze at--and try to adapt it to changing...