Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happens, Mickey (Barbara Williams) and Ray (John Getz) are experiencing marital blues and the stolen box contains journals of Mickey's unfulfilled fantasies. Worse still, the urban intruder is a studly thief named Scotty (Steven Bauer) who has expensive taste and big aspirations; he's not content to simply rob their home, he wants to steal Mickey too. Scotty reads her journals, falls in love with her picture and then moves in for the kill...
...modern Mafia were the compagnie d'armi, small private armies that feudal overlords employed to enforce their authority. In the absence of law courts, these armies dispensed a hideous kind of primitive justice. Peasants who found a corpse with a hand chopped off knew that a petty thief had been punished. A body with severed genitals stuffed in his mouth meant that the dead man had "offended" the wife of a compagnie member. A missing tongue signified that someone had violated the code of omerta, or silence...
...that once served as the gateway of Pukeroa pa, a fortified village. Though it is difficult to date most Maori sculpture precisely, this piece was made in the mid-19th century. Less fierce than similar gateway figures, the figure still casts a gaze threatening enough to intimidate any potential thief prowling through the Maori show...
...court sentenced an Italian monk found in possession of alcohol to 25 lashes, 30 days in prison and a fine. Another decreed that a convicted thief should be hanged, his body publicly displayed for 30 minutes, then crucified. A third punished two men found guilty of shattering a victim's tooth by removing a tooth from each of the attackers. Such are the rulings that have characterized the first seven weeks since emergency courts were set up to enforce the Islamic law of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri. In September the President may make his system even more implacable, Western...
Within days his efforts paid off when a pawnbroker in Central Square became suspicious of a customer who tried to sell him a handmade flute for $30. It turned out to be Shibutani's, and when the thief tried to flee, he dropped most of the other equipment...