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...agrees to take the fall--and endure a three-to five-year prison sentence--in place of a mobster accused of murder. In return, he is to be paid enough money upon his release to realize his lifelong dream of owning a boat. Inept mob gofer Jerry (Mantegna) must babysit Gino until the court date. The plot turns on whether Jerry can keep Gino from changing his mind and escaping from his Chicago apartment before the trial...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Where the Snide Talk Ends | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

...surely Harvard can find better ways to shower appreciation on its students than by making them morally obligated to babysit each other...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Spence's Snitches | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...little kids of the poem were the only children of Danny and Semadar Haran, for whom Hadara, now 15, used to babysit. Einat, 5, and Yael, 2, were both killed in April 1979, when terrorists entered Nahariya from the sea in a motor-powered dinghy and attacked a four-story apartment house. In one apartment they found Einat and her father, whom they took back to the beach. Danny they shot to death, and when Israeli forces approached, one of the terrorists picked up Einat by the feet and cracked open her head on a rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: What Good Is This Revenge? | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...named as the motive. Connery goes beyond outlining the skeletal facts of the case, focusing on how Falls Village reacted to the case. Two families--one Jewish and the other Italian--virtually adopted Reilly after the murder, mortgaging their homes to provide bail money and hiring him to babysit for their children in order to demonstrate their confidence in his innocence...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Juvenile Injustice | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...Williams in 1970, one frequent companion of Claudine's was Los Angeles Tennis Executive Steve Peyton. "Claudine was living with the children at Malibu at the time," a friend recalls. "When she'd go out with Steve sometimes, she'd call Andy to ask him to babysit." Williams, for his part, was squiring a series of young women and was a frequent escort of Ethel Kennedy after she was widowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Andy & Claudine & Spider & Co. | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

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