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Arts and Sciences Computer Services Director Franklin M. Steen said he believes the thief or thieves entered the offices from the library through an emergency door which connects the two areas. Recent construction extended the offices into space previously occupied by the library...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: FAS Computers Stolen | 10/16/1996 | See Source »

...Dole is so bent on exposing what he calls Clinton's "Me, too" practice of snatching his ideas that his campaign has been releasing a "Commander in Thief Watch." (It asks, "If you have no ideas of your own, why not steal someone else's?") But it seems that the plainspoken Kansan is not above a little political plagiarism himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Notebook, Oct. 14, 1996 | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...eminent auteurs of Hong Kong filmmaking, a master of somber, lyrical and unrelentingly bloody action films. He had his first U.S. hit earlier this year with Broken Arrow, and breaks new American ground this month with his first-ever made-for-TV movie, John Woo's Once a Thief (Fox, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ALL BIG YUKS | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Clearly a project for which Jane Seymour was not approached, Once a Thief is nevertheless a perfectly viable movie-of-the-week, one in which Woo has tempered his darker instincts. Present are his trademark slow-motion shots, ingeniously choreographed fisticuffs and gunplay--yet nary a visible drop of blood is shed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ALL BIG YUKS | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...charm of Once a Thief is that nearly every moment is played with a wink--the almost nonstop score has the giddy feel of music that might accompany a Stanley Donen caper, while the clipped pace of the showdowns gives the movie the tone of a Power Rangers episode with wit. Newcomer Sergei proves himself an appealing comedian as he smugly cuts down his rivals' big plans with lines like "Keep dreamin', Serpico." The movie ends with Sergei and Holt poised for further adventures. A series maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ALL BIG YUKS | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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