With "Moll Flanders", Daniel DeFoe presented a very direct, unvarnished portrait of a pickpocket and a prostitute.
Robert Goddard is a consummate storyteller who constructs a narrative with the sleight-of-hand skills of a pickpocket.
Tom, the son of a pickpocket, wanders onto the grounds of the Palace of Westminster and meets his stunning look-alike, Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII.
She wouldn't let me reward her, but everyone on the bus appreciated how the French visitor saved the day for the New Yorker who became a target of a pickpocket because she looked like a tourist.
It was also maintained that, for instance, the amputation of a pickpocket's right hand would lessen his physical ability to commit similar crimes in the future or that the branding of a telltale mark upon his forehead would alert his potential victims in a crowd to take special precautions while they were in his vicinity.
To the Editor: As a traveler who was the victim of a pickpocket in St .Petersburg, Russia, last fall and lost credit cards and passport, I would add a few additional suggestions: Make a photocopy of your passport information page and trade with your traveling companion.
Another highlight of the weekend, at 8 30 p.m. tomorrow, is "The Passionate Thief," the 1960 Mario Monicelli serio comedy that starred Anna Magnani and Ben Gazzara as out-of-work actors with Toto in the role of a pickpocket plying his trade at a lavish New Year's Eve party.
One has the quick hands of a pickpocket and another makes his living by stealing.
Whether your passport accidentally fell out of your purse or you were the victim of a pickpocket, these things happen.
His first feature, "Xiao Wu" (1998), the story of a pickpocket, was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival.
