Word: thief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week someone not only took the Cup but left four empty Schlitz beer cans in its place. Apparently satisfied with the deal. Stiles kept the cans on display, but the thief realized his mistake and reclaimed the prized cans for the trophy...
...Anything You Say Will Be Twisted, by British playwright Ken Campbell, is a perfect vehicle for the Senelick style. It is one of a long series of plays and novels, among them Gay's Beggar's Opera, derived from the life of Jack Sheppard, a young thief and ruffian of early 18-century London who became a folk hero through the British love of the scurrilous and inane. This particular version of the Sheppard legend has the hero start out as a relatively innocent carpenter's apprentice and slowly immerse himself in the ways of thievetry, lechery, and general debauchery...
POPE BROCK as Jack Sheppard is excellent. He is self-assured and at the same time suitably wide-eved and innocent. David Gullette as the Thief-Taker General scowls meanly and reads his lines with precise meter and intonation. Senelick is good at developing expert character actors; Dribbling Wilf ("a criminal mastermind of the first water"), played by E. Mackenzie, has remarkable facial control and an admirable ability to salivate. The Incredible Porty McFigg (Lawrence F. Uhl) cats glass, strangles rats with his teeth, roars and grunts and pounds in his pornography-painted chest, all with considerable glee...
Bond said there have been no major theft attempts in Harvard libraries since a "real thief" fell and broke a leg while trying to steal Widener's copy of the Gutenberg Bible in the summer...
...very moral man, Timmy." Eliot very much resembled the doctor in The Grand Hotel whose face seemed split down the middle-dark on one side, fair on the other-by just such a discoloration. In the movie, the doctor is present full face to the camera when the hotel thief is deciding whether or not to steal the wallet of the accountant, and at the close of the movie as well, when he pronounces with heavy irony (with the dark side of his face turned completely away from the camera so that the audience only sees his clear side...