The word "stakeout" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It typically refers to the act of watching or waiting, often with the intention of catching someone in the act of doing something wrong. For example: "The police conducted a stakeout at the abandoned warehouse, hoping to catch the burglars red-handed."
What should have been a routine stakeout, however, goes badly wrong.
In 1958 he and Fenady made their first feature film, Stakeout on Dope Street, after they were offered help by Roger Corman.
Stakeout on Dope Street, the story of three teenagers who find some packs of uncut heroin and try to peddle it, was a tightly edited, gritty drama, given a documentary quality by the photography of Haskell Wexler (using the pseudonym Mark Jeffrey, the names of his two sons), and the direction of Kershner.
Do you want to come with me?" Go on a stakeout with a private-eye-slash-spy-slash-surveillance professional who was out to catch the bad guys?
Taking off a turquoise snakeskin jacket and running a comb through his hair, he looked in the mirror: "This is more discreet, right?" Then he invited me to join him for a stakeout.
That can be hard to see with distractions like the blond blur of Rielle Hunter, the videographer and general enthusiast with whom Edwards had a baby, or the National Enquirer stakeout that exposed the situation, or the emotional mystery of how he got his aide, Andrew Young, who was married and had three children, to claim that he was the father of the child.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet That can be hard to see with distractions like the blond blur of Rielle Hunter, the videographer and general enthusiast with whom Edwards had a baby, or the National Enquirer stakeout that exposed the situation, or the emotional mystery of how he got his aide, Andrew Young, who was married and had three children, to claim that he was the father of the child.
Investigators were evidently led to the men because one of them made a cell-phone call to his girlfriend during the stakeout.
On the curb outside the Herat Restaurant, a kebab-and-rice-pilaf place whose walls are adorned with old black-and-white photographs of Afghanistan's principal ancient sites (except for the destroyed Bamian Buddhas, which are curiously absent, as if they had never existed), a contingent of beggar boys and women in dirty burkhas are on permanent stakeout.
The sharp-tongued, huffy Balkan hooker (a hilarious Vera Farmiga) who climbs into Will's car during the stakeout is a brilliant psychologist of human nature.
There's a kidnapping, in Louise Erdrich's "Gleason," an F.B.I. stakeout to catch a bank robber in David Means's "The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934," and an attempt to foil organized crime in Keith Ridgway's "Goo Book".
