Word: thief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon examines the English painter's long affair with a petty thief and his need to be the submissive partner in sadomasochistic sex. The film is broken into shards of images like shrapnel: coupled male bodies mime the exertions of Greco-Roman wrestling; Francis bends over for a whipping, or to be tattooed with a hot cigarette. Which makes the film both exquisitely observed and tough to watch...
...Sisco is a slightly suspect agent, Clooney is the cleanest-living, most personable criminal in cinematic history, the thief in the gray flannel suit, a gentleman and a robber. He steals because that's the way he was brought up, you understand, and it's implied that he only robs because the world treats him badly, or only if he knows a really bad guy with some really good loot. A real Robin Hood, Foley. He's a thief with lots of honor who falls hard once he meets a good woman, even after she shoots...
Police inspector Javert suspects the mayor, Jean Valjean, is really a thief who broke parole many years before...
...recent theft of an Oriental rug from the Straus Hall common room has led to a debate of the merits of collective responsibility. Unable to find the thief, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) has decided to divide the cost of replacing the rug among all Straus residents. The FDO made a similar decision a few weeks earlier, charging all Wigglesworth residents for damage done to the common room. While the FDO may claim that collective responsibility fosters a sense of community among the residents, communities formed under such circumstances rapidly degenerate into factions. The students against the Faculty...
...anonymous pair of thief and vandal might have come from within the ranks. If the perpetrators are assumed to be residents of Straus and Wigglesworth, the FDO's policy has the deleterious effect of making student police their neighbors. Rather than supporting a sense of community, collective responsibility necessitates vigilance and suspicion. Indeed the bills mailed to Wigglesworth residents told the unlucky recipients that they could avoid the charge if they were to become informants...