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...larceny and ninth in car thefts last year. State officials last week reported that crime was down 8.1% for the first quarter of 1981, compared with the same period in 1980, but the dip hardly dents the growth of the problem in recent years. Admits Deputy Chief of Police Harold Falk Jr.: "Honolulu is no longer some isolated South Sea paradise. We suffer the same problems as big cities on the mainland...
...diffuse and vast presence behind the screen of natural facts. Thus one of the master images of romantic contemplation was Friedrich's Moonrise on the Sea, 1822, three figures on a rock, silhouetted in a loneliness as absolute (though not as flamboyant) as Manfred's, Childe Harold's or Young Werther's, gazing in immobility at the slow unfolding of light on the darkened, violet-tinged flatness of sea and sky. Like most of Friedrich's paintings, it is soaked in allegory-the moon representing Christ, the ships serving as emblems of the voyage...
...some purchase on fame. It tied up with his other harmless fibs-that he had studied under Kandinsky, for instance. Above all, it solidified the impression of a romantic outsider. Henceforth, Achilles the Bitter would be seen in New York (or so he naively hoped) as an Armenian Childe Harold, a creature of exalted but conjectural origins, with no baggage but the authority of his Europeanness, no passport but modernism itself...
...front porch of Pauline Maerker's house in the small (pop. 10,000), southern Illinois farm community of Murphysboro. When Maerker's daughter, Ruth Ann, 27, tried to walk out of the house, the animal's angry growl drove her back. When her son, Harold, 42, opened the door, the dog leaped at him. Only the screen saved him. Fifteen minutes later, the police came, tranquilized the dog, then took it away for testing. The animal, part of a pack that had been seen roaming the streets for months, biting people and other dogs, turned...
...year, I wasn't going to give the money back." Oilers Owner Peter Pocklington is enthusiastic: "I was offered $2 million for him, but $10 million wouldn't buy him. There's no price on greatness." Toronto Owner Harold Ballard can think of one. "I'd trade my whole team for the kid, and throw in the farm club...