The thieves got away with a million pounds' worth of jewellery.

The offbeat little girls of “Playdate,” whose mothers stumble through parenthood, are not the first characters to feel like cultural descendants of Salinger’s children, those savants, myopics, guileless nose pickers and practicing belchers who seem to glow on the page, highlighting the shallowness of the adults.

He was really belting along.

The bathroom mirror was steamed up.