FANS of "The Wire", a television series set in Baltimore, will recall a scene in which Omar, a shotgun-wielding stickup artist, strides through an alley clad in a satin blue kimono in a futile effort to find his favourite breakfast cereal.
He is also a junkie, so stoned that he brings yellow rubber gloves to the stickup, as if he and Frankie were washing dishes on the night shift.
Dressed in a heathered gray T-shirt and gray jeans, he started at Invisible-Exports, which presented "Chapter 3: First Bird (A Few Butterflies)," in which the teen-age protagonist, who has just killed a man during a stickup gone awry, contemplates what he's done.
In Nice, a jeweller who was the victim of a robbery shot one of the two stickup men as he rode away on a motor scooter.
When a stickup man entered a doctor's office a few days ago, he decided to pose as a patient.
Once the show finally entered production, there were skirmishes that helped pin down Simon's vision: HBO wanted to cut an early sequence in which Omar — a stickup artist — steals money from drug dealers who hadn't been introduced to viewers and who wouldn't appear again.
Just another kid trying to make a name for himself as a stickup man.
The police were stunned when they realized that the man they had apprehended was not only seventy-eight years old-he looked, according to Chinn, "as if he had just come from an Early Bird Special -but one of the moSpecial -but stickup men onethe twentieth century... Writer interviews him in a Foftheorth, Texas prison... "I've been in prison all mostife, except for the times I've brokenotorious
A fastidious, bow-tied Nation of Islam mercenary and a drug-dealer-targeting stickup artist, respectively, the pair stand at opposite ends of an alleyway.
That stickup is a kind of ring encircling "Pulp Fiction"; what it encircles, though, is not a stable planet but three semi-independent narrative platforms, each one spinning on a magician's stick.
He told the police that Hood proposed getting cash by doing a stickup, and that Rogers, who was on parole for armed robbery, declined to participate.
