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 most notorious stickup men of the twentieth century.
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
Like Tucker, Bellew modelled himself on the stickup men of the nineteen-thirties, and he ran with a stage dancer named Jet Blanca.
Joe meets Emma Gould in the midst of a stickup in 1926, with Prohibition in full swing.
Highsmith found someone who knew one of the stickup men and who, at Highsmith's request, negotiated with them.
Black-car drivers say they run less risk of a stickup because most black cars take credit cards or vouchers, not cash.
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.
And McFadden acknowledged he couldn't remember ever arresting someone on suspicion of a stickup in his 39-year career. .
Standard hood protocol would suggest a dude screaming fuck yous and hurry the fuck ups with aggression, but instead, this scene goes for an odd friendly exchange, followed by profuse apologies on behalf of the stickup man, and a promise by said thief that he'll pay Alfred back.
Standard hood protocol would suggest a dude screaming fuck you's and hurry the fuck ups with aggression, but instead, this scene goes for an odd friendly exchange, followed by profuse apologies on the behalf of the stickup man, and a promise by said thief that he'll pay Alfred back.
