Word: caper
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...State Department expressed outrage at the caper, which may have violated international law. But there were no complaints from the Panamanians-and none, of course, from Fairfield General's receivers. Under longstanding law, the plane, worth perhaps $3.5 million, can now be legally sold to satisfy debts, no matter how it reached the U.S. Judge Kimmelman happily accepted a small red bag containing vital engine parts from Eisenhauer last week...
...transcribers afraid merely to suggest a joke, leaving the details to the imagination of their readers. Take the great pizza caper, for example...
Sullivan's music come through even more beautifully than Gilbert's words. Gerald Moshell evokes a full, singing tone from his fine orchestra, as is only proper, since Ruddigore has more than its share of set-apart showpieces--Thomas D. Fuller's hornpipe in the first act, the respectable caper Edith Marshall as a reformed Mad Margaret dances with Pell Osborn as a reformed wicked baronet in the second, the astonishing materialization of the Ruddigore ancestors, led by David Buchner, from their picture gallery--as well as a first-act finale that includes one madrigal, with lyrics about how nice...
...plot, which is totally predictable whenever it manages to make sense, shuttles Thomasine (Vonetta McGee) and Bushrod (Max Julien) from caper to caper with small regard for continuity. Yet, there are some nice, funny, affectionate moments between the two lead actors. She is always at him about something, like holding up their getaway from a bank robbery so she can snap a photograph. He is very wry, very careful about her, and although one can see the last ambush coming a long distance away, it is still a wrenching moment. McGee and Julien (he also wrote the script and coproduced...
...show up. Later the group planned to raise money for the cause by staging another payroll robbery at a construction site. One of the unit's members, Pat O'Brien, was on holiday in Ireland, and Lennon was ordered by Wicken to steer clear of the caper. The three other members of the unit walked into a trap and were arrested before the heist could take place. In December all were found guilty of plotting the robbery and sentenced to ten years in prison...