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  • Ben Affleck is on gritty form as a bank-robber desperate to leave the game after falling for witness Rachel Hall.

    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011

  • As Fred went to join Phido on the bus platform, the burly bank-robber sent him staggering backwards.

    Lion Annual 1957 Adam Roberts 2010

  • As Fred went to join Phido on the bus platform, the burly bank-robber sent him staggering backwards.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • I've met two of her longest-lasting roommates: Becky the bank-robber whom I adored and is now free, and another inmate I called "Little Miss Manslaughter" because she was so bubbly and was an actual fan of my movies before she was sentenced.

    John Waters: Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 3 of 5 2009

  • The only legally obtainable bodies in most countries belonged to criminals, such as the bank-robber Aris Kindt, pictured in Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.

    Lapham's Quarterly: 1784: When Universal Health Care Was as Simple as Donating Your Body to Science 2009

  • Welllll, I have the power to replicate copies of myself, like the bank-robber guy in X-Men 3.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Nalini Singh 2007

  • Black, a Senegalese bank-robber born and raised in France, is getting over a disastrous heist in which he lost nearly all of his men.

    SXSW 2009 Preview: ‘Black’ | We Are Movie Geeks 2009

  • Reading this article about Specter's proposed legislation is somewhat like hearing that a life-long, chronic bank-robber got arrested for robbing a bank over the weekend and, in response, a Senator introduces legislation to make it a crime to rob banks ....

    This Law Sounds Oddly Familiar 2006

  • As Glenn describes it, reading of the Specter bill "is somewhat like hearing that a life-long, chronic bank-robber got arrested for robbing a bank over the weekend and, in response, a Senator introduces legislation to make it a crime to rob banks."

    Balkinization 2006

  • His bank-robber character, Henry Manning, had faked a stroke to get out of prison, and when Linda Fiorentino's canny nurse sees through his scam, Henry tells her, in a spellbinding soliloquy, about going into a kind of Zen state in the prison hospital and turning himself into nothing but a beating heart.

    Paul Newman: So Much More Than Just a Handsome Face 2008

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