Word: thief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bikes. More than 3,300 cars were stolen in Cambridge last year. Even with the doors locked and the windows rolled up, it's easy to get into any car with a coat hanger, to force the ignition with a screw-driver and drive away within seconds. If a thief wants to get you, it's hard to keep him from succeeding. As one Cambridge police lieutenant says, "We haven't even started to touch the creative genius of these people. We try to think how to prevent a crime, but we can't think like them." The best deterrents...
...environment alone, he felt, that determined what a man is: "Give me a dozen healthy infants," he wrote in 1925, "and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select?doctor, lawyer, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities." The goal of this Watsonian behaviorism was the prediction and control of behavior?which suited Skinner to perfection...
...Leader Maurice Lalubi (Woody Strode) is a world-famous apostle of nonviolence-what the Italian film makers choose to dub a Black Jesus. The fascist regime of his country hurriedly runs him to earth. Brought before the local Pontius Pilate (Jean Servais), Lalubi is cast into jail with a thief (Franco Citti), and tortured with nails driven into his hands. After a series of graphic humiliations, he is stabbed in the side by a soldier and dies. Organ music purls throughout to underline both the literal symbolism and the unadorned wretchedness of the performances. Two exceptions must be noted: Servais...
...jewelry. Last week, returning to make a film, she discovered that the October rascals had just been snared, but that no loot had been recovered. Determinedly sitting through a series of police lineups, Sophia successfully fingered the two culprits, then departed to shoot scenes in an appropriate location: thief-infested 42nd Street...
...Thousand Clowns, Scenarist Herb Gardner created Murray Burns, the same avian specimen ostentatiously hiding his self-pity in a cloak of jokes. Georgie is a blurred replica of Murray, surrounded by the same narcissistic suffering and arriving at the same lame insights: "Time is not a thief; he's an embezzler, juggling the books at night so you don't notice anything's missing...