Word: theft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TOPKAPI. Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov make a jewel theft in Istanbul look like grand foolery in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...
...seemingly perplexed cast can scarcely redeem itself, let alone the play. Ben Gazzara sets the acting tone of the evening with a performance of marmoreal monotony. Everyone labors strenuously over the point that Anouilh talkily belabors: to be robbed of the worst, or the best, past is not a theft but a gift. Anouilh further argues, without his later agile irony and cogent wit, that a man can indeed escape his past, which suggests that the young playwright still harbored at least one fond and vastly foolish illusion...
...crimes in the categories of criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, youngsters under 18 accounted for 46% of all arrests in 1963. In the suburbs the rate...
...Teen-agers account for 63% of all U.S. auto-theft arrests (88% of all car thieves arrested are under 25), and arrests for auto theft increased 13% last year...
...prisoner was not asleep. Ten minutes later, onetime Bookmaker Charles F. Wilson, 32, was free and away, leaving behind 29 years and eight months of a 30-year sentence. He was one of the twelve men jailed for the greatest cash theft of all time, the $7,369,000 robbery of a mail train a year ago. The Great Train Robbery was followed fittingly last week by the Great Jail Break, for it had all the qualities of the robbery-good intelligence work, the right equipment, a daring team to do the job, and a superb plan...