Word: capering
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...they still make movies like this. The question is why. Surely there is a considerable surplus of these caper epics, involving the intricate mechanics of some complicated robbery scheme and the assorted tensions and rivalries, professional or romantic, among the people who carry them through. Gambit, Topkapi, How to Steal a Millionthe list seems endless. But the genre is not, as Perfect Friday proves...
...young man!" He watches a bunch of blacks mug a white man and woman in a seemingly random, senseless fashion. His more sober-minded comrades, living for "the Revolution," mechanize LNS and then viciously torture his friends to recover the equipment Mungo's friends have stolen in their big caper. He discovers that the Movement's members can be more than just disagreeable. Writing of his meeting with Eldridge Cleaver in his pre-Algerian days, he says: "He [Cleaver] told us to be wary of supporting everybody who called himself a revolutionary, that some of these revolutionaries were, you know...
Unlikely Zealot. For the past two years, the Fox has been the scourge of those he considers polluters in Illinois' Kane County, west of Chicago. He has plugged offending sewers, capped spewing chimneys, left ripe skunks on the suburban doorsteps of company executives. At the scene of every caper, he leaves a note explaining that the particular victim is getting back a bit of his own for defiling the environment...
...incident is the basis for one of many allegations that will be brought against WPIX in the continuing hearing in Manhattan's Federal Building. Several days before the Putzel caper, the FCC says, WPIX ran a scene identified as Prague with the subtitle "Via Satellite" when in fact it was not a satellite transmission but a dusty old film. Another night, a voice report out of Vienna was labeled as Prague. Similarly, the channel stands accused of passing off canned footage of a disturbance in a Boston high school as a later, ghetto riot...
...Pugh, general manager of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus. "But he's been going up three and four times a day. He's got a lot of guts." The daring young man was do-it-yourself George Plimpton, who has tried just about everything else. This caper was for a TV special, Plimpton at the Circus. Besides the trapeze, the Paper Lion took on the "taming" of a pair of real lions named Nero and John-John...