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...anarchists did recently and express yourself through chalk drawings on their driveways (“This club is elitist” for instance). Refuse to be a date for a punch event. Stand in front of a music-blasting club at 3am with 50 of your closest friends and steal their tunes for an impromptu dance party. Laugh at them. When a section-mate says “I’m going to the Spee” with pride, roll your eyes and say, “Oh wow, aren’t you special...
Denver’s goaltending is steady, but nowhere near as deserving of respect as its offense, so the Beavers will have to clamp down in front of Climie at their own end, then hope to steal a goal or two at the other and pray that the bounces all go their...
Folks in Tazewell County know they better keep their eyes open, their toolsheds locked and their barn doors shut. Junkies, addicted to prescription pills and looking for anything to steal to pay for their next fix, have turned this 520-sq.-mi. patch of Appalachian Virginia--a bucolic tangle of wooded mountains, steep hills and rolling pastures dotted with sagging barns and country churches--into a society plagued by pilferers. They swipe guns from unlocked cabinets and push motorcycles out of garages in the dead of night. They swap or sell stolen watches, lawn mowers and sneakers for potent painkillers...
...shoddy examples, there is the rickety logic. After decrying how the press and partisans in Washington reflexively think the worst of the other side-President Bush floats above, according to Fleischer-he then quotes, without irony, the President talking about the Florida recount. "If they're going to steal the election, they're going to steal it," Bush serenely said to me at his ranch the day I left Texas." "Stealing" is not, by most people, considered a value-neutral term...
...plot proceeds with forced motivation. Disgruntled teens in a dirty pick-up truck follow Walter Smith (Kevin Pollak) and his family home, eyeing the family’s shining Escalade. Their attempt to steal the car from the Smiths’ remote mansion is complicated by the involvement of the two Smith children, Tommy (Jimmy Bennet) and Jennifer (Michelle Horn), as well as their father (Pollak). The delinquent teens ineptly spiral the event into a full-blown hostage situation...