Word: thief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethical dilemma for him. Over lunch, he insists he's "retired" after stealing more than 1,000 cars -- enough to help put two daughters through law and medical school. "Thank God, they didn't follow me," he says with a frenzied laugh. "Who the hell needs another car thief in the family...
Among suppliers in Bucks County, few were as intimidating as Wills. "Mark could pick up 400 lbs. with one hand," says Palamarchuk, who was always fearful of Wills. Still, Wills mastered the one-eyed thief's cardinal rule: swipe, dismantle and dispose of one vehicle at a time. That ensures control -- and safety. "A good car thief can't be caught," Palamarchuk says. "He can only be informed...
...question, Heart and Souls is a cry movie in every stitch of its elaborate plot. In 1959 four strangers -- a working mother (Alfre Woodard), a petty thief (Tom Sizemore), a waitress in love (Kyra Sedgwick) and a timid opera singer (Charles Grodin) -- board a San Francisco bus and die when the driver swerves to avoid a car. In that car, at that moment, a woman gives birth to a boy, Thomas; and in his body the spirits of the four dead passengers are trapped. Today the ghosts have learned that Thomas (Robert Downey Jr.) can perform one act for each...
...This was a weird case," Furth said. "This guy was a con man and a thief. He fooled a lot of people, including myself, but I wasn't the only...
...milk. Sometimes, when the hunger is bad, the boys will simply run up to a hawker, grab a handful of food and run. And sometimes they are caught. "The cops know we're only trying to survive, and they let us go," says Alen Berglerovic, the best thief in the school. "What can they do to us? We already live in a prison...