Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...habitually got into 20 to 30 pay phones a day and earned $20,000 annually. Less sophisticated professionals often smash the telephones or rip them out and carry them away. Plain spiteful vandalism also accounts for an increasing number of broken phones. Teen-agers rip out wires or steal receivers and dials just for perverse fun or an adolescent sign of protest. Some psychologists see similarities between the wrecking of telephones and the destruction of school property or cars (see BEHAVIOR). Such acts are believed to be caused, in part, by what psychologists call "the feeling of anonymity" that stimulates...
...newest version, Verdon has been replaced by a carrot-topped Shirley MacLaine, whose wide-screen pathos and galvanic energy does not quite match her predecessors'. Most of the other essentials remain the same. Sleazy customers steal in on little cad feet; for $6.50 an hour Charity hustles them around the dancehall floor-and sometimes into bed. A born romantic-hence the heart tattooed on her arm-Charity continually falls for Mr. Wrong. A leeching gigolo gloms her purse; a narcissistic movie star (Ricardo Montalban) invites her up to his apartment and forces her to be a voyeuse while...
...them all year long, looking forward to the great day when they come down from their hills to take over the city's avenues. Says one favelado: "Those who never work begin to work for their costumes. Washerwomen take on twice their normal work load, and even thieves steal more. In the end, everybody works double." The rich too pay for their fun. Brazilian Couturier Evandro Castro Lima is working on ten dazzling fantasias for society women. He himself will strut this year as Harun al-Rashid, in a besequined and bejeweled costume that weighs 105 lbs. "We flee...
...skyjacker is making a grand attention-getting gesture that he thinks will forever remove him from anonymity and impotence among the faceless millions of a mass society. "Behind it is the omnipotent fantasy," reasons Dr. Frederick Hacker, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California. "To steal an airplane has a lot to do with feelings of masculinity that need strengthening." Says Dr. Leonard Olinger, who teaches abnormal psychology at U.S.C.: "He's in the same class as the assassin, the same sort of acting-out character. You'd have to say there is a marked...
WILLIAM FAULKNER once remarked: "An artist is a creature driven by demons. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies." It is an attitude shared by all who have discovered just how difficult it is to write one superlative poem and what bitter battles must be waged to keep poetry vital and relevant in an age when so much...