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...Flower Thief...
...that Ms. Sontag is a thief, it's simply that she's a critic. She has seen so many films and thought so long and hard about them, that her own look like a composite of all those things she's praised in others. Duet for Cannibals was made out of Bresson and Bergman and Godard in equal measures, one ingredient at a time. It substituted confusion for narrative and vagueness for thought. It was the type of film that gave the avant garde a bad name...
...partially daunted, in his soldier's way wise to the ways of the underworld, he is still dealing in hot guns, supplying them to a mob specializing in branch bank heists around Boston. Simultaneously, he is trying to beat a bootlegging rap by doing some minimal informing-a thief's honor warring with a middle-aged man's need to put his comfort and his family's needs first...
...gets his superior in trouble by taking the boss's name in vain, he is booted out immediately, with no expressions of regret. Says a New York textile maker, who once discovered that an overzealous assistant was tapping other employees' telephones in an attempt to expose a thief: "I gave him 15 minutes to get the taps off-and then I fired...
Campbell said the police have no further clues about the identity of the thief or the whereabouts of the sculpture. He said a cursory search of nearby garbage pails turned up nothing...