Examples of using Dortmunder in English and their translations into Russian
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Dortmunder is similar to Parker in several ways.
You may call me"Doctor" Amusa,Mr. Dortmunder.
Dortmunder says he's dumping the remainder of the shipment.
Uh, one little problem is that Amusa knows who me and Dortmunder are.
Dortmunder, I don't know where the hell you are or what the hell you're sayin.
Why Me?(1990) stars Christopher Lambert as Dortmunder, renamed"Gus Cardinale.
He generally finds Dortmunder and his cronies amusing- much to their relief.
Jimmy the Kid(1982) stars Gary Coleman as Jimmy, andPaul Le Mat as Dortmunder.
However, Dortmunder is not always unlucky, and in some novels and stories he and his crew make out quite well.
What's the Worst That Could Happen?(2001)stars Martin Lawrence as Dortmunder, renamed"Kevin Caffery.
In fact, Dortmunder gets worried when things go smoothly and seems relieved when something does go wrong.
She is a supermarket cashier(initially at Bohack's, in later books at Safeway);they met when she caught Dortmunder shoplifting.
Even Dortmunder can't always stand dealing with Arnie and from time to time deals with another fence named Stoon instead.
Seen most frequently are: Andy Kelp:All-purpose crook Andy Kelp is Dortmunder's best friend, though Dortmunder would be the first to deny this.
Dortmunder married a nightclub entertainer whose stage name was'Honeybun Bazoom' shortly before he left the country to serve in Korea in 1952.
Except in a few short stories,where Dortmunder is working alone, each of Dortmunder's plans calls for a"string" or team.
Dortmunder has been twice convicted of burglary charges, serving time in prison- he is completing the final day of his second prison term at the very beginning of The Hot Rock.
As is common with characters in long-running series, Dortmunder and his companions seem to be more-or-less frozen at the age they were when we first met them.
She's thin, dark-haired, a chain-smoker(although she gives this up in later novels, resorting to fake-smoking), andusually more optimistic than Dortmunder which isn't hard.
Unlike Parker, however, Dortmunder is a nonviolent character who devises schemes that are usually outlandish and over-the-top.
His age is given as 37 in 1970's The Hot Rock, andas 40 in 1977's Nobody's Perfect; thereafter, Dortmunder would appear to be somewhere in his early forties throughout the series' nearly forty-year run.
John Archibald Dortmunder is a fictional character created by Donald E. Westlake, and who is the protagonist of 14 novels and 11 short stories published between 1970 and 2009.
But they are all seen frequently, and could certainly be accused of aiding and abetting Dortmunder and his cronies in all their endeavors: May Bellamy: Dortmunder's long-standing live-in girlfriend, introduced in Bank Shot the second novel.
However, Dortmunder is generally loyal to Kelp throughout the series, even if he sometimes finds him exasperating especially as Kelp has developed the habit of picking the lock on John's apartment door and entering without knocking or ringing the doorbell first.
The Kurdistan Reconstruction andDevelopment Society has been working in partnership with Dortmunder helfen in Kooperation(DhK) since 2009; IOM since 2008; NGOs Coordination Committee in Iraq since 2010; and the Iraqi Kurdistan NGOs Network since 2000.
Dortmunder has occasionally used the alias"John Diddums" and tells anyone who asks that it's Welsh(to which they usually reply"Ah" or"Oh"); he came up with the name on the spur of the moment in the short story"Too Many Crooks"(1989) and dislikes it, but now uses it involuntarily in circumstances that preclude using his real name.
A firm believer that for a job one should"Never go in with fewer people than you need"(Get Real), Dortmunder as a rule never works with more than four other people, his thinking being that if a job can't be pulled with a maximum gang of five then it's too risky.
Because Kelp has brought Dortmunder many eventually unsuccessful jobs(or jobs that promised great payment but which dismally disappoint all members of the"string"), Dortmunder has been known to call Kelp a jinx.
In appearance, he is shorter than Dortmunder, has a pointy nose, has birdlike mannerisms, and looks"like a cockney pickpocket" Nobody's Perfect.
German cooperative bank Dortmunder Volksbank(DV) has introduced a mobile payments service that enables customers to make payments with their NFC mobile phone at any merchant equipped to process MasterCard PayPass contactless transactions.
