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...certainty they didn't know what they'd got. With big robberies, that's more common than you might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists - notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves took gold worth $45 million - police and underworld lore insists that the gangs had no idea of the value of their haul. For a crook, an unexpectedly large payday can be as much a curse as a blessing. You have to do something with stuff you've stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your...
...that they didn't know what they had got. With big robberies, that's more common than you might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists--notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves took gold worth $45 million--police and underworld lore insist that the gangs had no idea of the value of their haul. For a crook, an unexpectedly large payday can be as much a curse as a blessing. You have to do something with the stuff you've stolen, and if you've stolen...
...media play, the terror and fascination of entombment tap into something primal. To be trapped underground is to be not just in danger but separated from the world of the living. What is underground? It is where the dead are buried. It is where cultures have placed the underworld in their eschatology, where souls are judged and the wicked rent by monsters, boiled in oil or raked by demons over flaming coals...
...need to head to the Mac more often. With an intense unblinking glare and deft swordplay, Mridula S. Raman ’06 was effectively scary as single-mindedly evil Mahisha. In Saavitri’s story, a young woman follows the god of death, Yama, into the underworld and entreats him to resurrect her husband from the dead. Although they communicate solely through their hands and eyes, their mimed interactions are so vivid the mind imagines their mouths following the gestures of Rau-Murthy (as Saavitiri) and Suratha Elango ’06 (as Yama). The final vignette...
...HarperCollins; 1,048 pages; $40). Heroically edited by Katherine Bucknell, the book takes us through Isherwood's first 21 years in California in 901 pages (the glossary alone takes up an additional 93!). Profoundly sane, Isherwood traveled from Garbo to God and back again--by way of the gay underworld--without losing a sense of humor or proportion...