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Without introduction, the tall, lean candidate in his dark-rimmed glasses and conservatively cut pin-stripe suit, appearing more like a professor than a politician, strode toward the podium. Only a huge photo of him and his 14-year-old daughter decorated the former chapel of a convent in Colmar. Then quickly, his hands clasped behind his back, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, broke into the pedantic delivery that has become a trademark in his campaign to succeed the late Georges Pompidou as President of France...
...criminals who are romantic robin hoods, whether in moonshining or bank robbing; of green country just getting used to the presence of black topped roads and big new cars and cops and robber chases. It is a world which Bonnie and Clyde made famous, and Thieves often seems to lean too heavily on that earlier film, in scenes like the final, rather improbable shoot out at a motor court when the police fill the small frame cottage where the hero is holed up with about two or three minutes worth of solid lead. There is rather gratuitous use of slow...
Police have pieced together a description of the man by drawing on information from eyewitnesses to the shootings. He is between 20 and 30, from 5 ft. 9 in. to 6 ft., of medium build and lean face, with a thin mustache and possibly a goatee; he may wear a knitted cap. Some witnesses claim that there are two, possibly three assailants...
...free from squints, twitches or actual deformity). The villains do not stand a chance. They have to face the psychological weaponry of the Mulkerins' Indian friends (using ancient magical powers to scare the wits out of them). Those villains who survive face the actual hardware of other friends, "lean men and tall, with Mexican spurs and battered, flatbrimmed hats," in the inevitable shootout...
...members bring a range of political opinion to their meetings, ranging from Nickerson, who is a liberal Republican, to Calkins and Blum, who are active Democrats. Burr and Slichter are independents, while Bok and Putnam lean to the Democrats' side. Collectively, the Corporation is the most liberal it has ever been, a far cry from the days when Republican registration was an unstated requirement...