Word: pickpocket
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...Film Festival. In 1996, Wang Xiaoshuai made Frozen under the pseudonym Wu Ming (literally No Name), for fear of government retribution; another of his films, So Close to Paradise, a noirish study of gangsters in Shanghai, was reshot, recut and withheld for five years. Jia Zhangke shot Xiao Wu (Pickpocket, 1997) despite the censors' rejection of his script; he was banned from directing, but went ahead anyway. Jia got funds for his next film, Platform (2000), in part from Japanese star Takeshi Kitano...
Harvard was also able to force 22 turnovers in that meeting, and will look to pickpocket junior guard Drew Gellert to pressure the Bears' ballhandlers. Gellert's 3.1 steals per game is good enough for the Ivy lead, and rates fifth in the nation...
...Harvard undergraduate and his friend chased a would-be pickpocket through Harvard Yard early yesterday, tackling him before police arrived...
Among the actors, Charles Weinstein stands out for his ebullient portrayal of Robert Sideway, the convicted pickpocket who dreams of Drury Lane. With his absurd Tragedian posturing--he imagines himself to be a second Garrick--and the flourishes of his beloved white handkerchief (that indispensable possession of the true gentleman), he becomes the star, not only of The Recruiting Officer, but also of Our Country's Good...
...coming Matthew Broderick steals the show as Phillippe the Mouse, a devil-may-care pickpocket who saunters through impenetrable fortresses, subterranean passageways and enchanted forests. In the process of extricating himself from the grasp of some rather unsavory soldiers charges with reimprisonng the lawless but lovable Phillippe in the infamous prison of Aguila, our hero meets up with Nararre, the aforementioned chivalrous knight who rescues the Mouse just in time and spirits him off to safety...