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...runs, made base stealing a respectable tactic, easing the way for the records of Brock and Henderson. Brock, who flew to Milwaukee last week to help Henderson celebrate, notes that the psychology of theft has not changed a bit since his own day: "What separates the great base stealer from the rest is arrogance. You have to eliminate all fear and declare war on the entire league." The guileless Henderson cites a less bellicose reason. Says he: "I've loved to steal bases since I was a little kid. That's what makes baseball thrilling...
...notorious scene stealer, Beery played a lovable Mexican bandit in The Bad Man (1941). Reagan was the rancher he befriended...
...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...