Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party. But on the way home that night, ruffians accost Akakievich, steal his coat and with it his reason for existence. Again friendless, the cipher succumbs to madness and death; yet his ghost remains, seizing the coat collars of stolid St. Petersburgers to remind them that humanity is more than appearances...
...Minister Victor Marijnen has sought a way to admit advertising to The Netherlands' two TV channels. The idea of commercial television sounded fine to most viewers, and Dutch businessmen were becoming increasingly insistent. But some elements within the five big groups rejected every proposed scheme since it would steal air time and disrupt the time-tested formula...
...village of Hualcan, 200 miles northwest of Lima, only eight of 900 people can even communicate in Spanish; the rest speak Quechua, the language of their Inca ancestors. After a visit to Hualcan, a U.S. anthropologist reported that the Indians at first thought him an evil spirit come to steal the fat from their bones...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Elsa Lanchester plays a mad Thrush scientist who tries to steal U.N.C.L.E. secrets...
Baker Street puts Holmes in bogusly dangerous plights as he foils Professor Moriarty's plot to steal the Queen's Jubilee jewels, but it is never spoofy enough to raise a howl or scary enough to raise a hackle. The real danger is an American actress (Inga Swenson), who spurs Holmes's love disinterest. Actress Swenson is so cool that icicles wouldn't melt in her mouth, though words do-it is difficult to know whether she is reading her lines or learning them. Martin Gabel is sepulchrally menacing as Moriarty, but he has a walk...