Word: stealer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then Chabrol destroys what little credibility Dirty Hands has left. Having led the viewer to believe that Schneider's paramour--and not her husband--had been murdered through a cunning substitution of bodies made by Steiger, the story now repeats the Lazarus twist and brings the wife-stealer back to life, even giving him some of the very same lines uttered by Steiger after his re-emergence. In place of the promised "erotic thriller," you see only farce tinged with a certain arrogance as to what an audience will swallow...
...stately, and last week the biggest publishing rush in memory came to an end. Henry Kissinger signed an agreement giving Boston's Little, Brown, a subsidiary of Time Inc., rights to publish his account of his eight years as an architect of U.S. foreign policy. The scene stealer at the signing was Tyler, Kissinger's yellow Labrador, who chomped on the champagne cork that Arthur H. Thornhill Jr., chairman of Little, Brown, helped pop to celebrate his company's coup. Afterward, an ebullient Henry and Wife Nancy flew off to Acapulco for three weeks...
...Body Stealer. There is some padding in the 13,390 entries. Is anyone likely to misplace humid or fervent or dawdle? Bernstein includes some delightful, half-remembered curios-a body stealer, for example, is a resurrectionist. But where is mooncalf? Where is poshlust? Sometimes the clue words are elusive. If one goes hunting for callipygian, he cannot look under "buttocks, rounded" or some such, but must hit "shapely buttocks" or "beautiful buttocks." ("Buttocks that are fat" yields steatopygia-which is a different matter altogether.) Bernstein's backward dictionary is a kind of combination thesaurus and crossword-puzzle dictionary...
...this point in TIME, let me be one of the first to leak the names of John Dean (the Squealer) and Daniel Ellsberg (the Stealer) for Men of the Year. Unquestionably, these two glib national figures left an indelible mark on 1973, thanks to their deification by a tendentious press...
...with 63, then duplicated the feat the following year with marks of .386 and 39. Thanks to his blazing speed -home to first in three seconds flat -Garr is already established as one of the best "leg hitters" in the majors. Although not yet an accomplished big-league base stealer (he has been thrown out seven times in 18 attempts), he is enough of a threat that whenever he comes to the plate or reaches base, Atlanta fans cry "Beep! Beep!" So far this season he has beaten out 32 infield hits. He is also learning to apply his speed...