Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love to take from everything, everything that is done now has to be built on what came before. I admit it, I steal, suck in from every source, that's what I want to do--I want to be a vampire and a thief. That's what I want...
SIGHT UNSEEN. A trendy artist revisits the woman who first inspired him and tries to steal the sole memento of that time, a portrait of her. Writer Donald Margulies weaves a glittering web of satire about the art scene, the media, the exploitative side of creativity and rueful romance. This off-Broadway succes d'estime has vaulted to a commercial...
...trial for murder. He tried to steal a car from this guy, and when the guy resisted, he knocked him down and ran over him with the car. Then he backed up, ran over him again, then he drove around the block and came back and ran over him again. And then he put the car in reverse, and as he ran over the guy a fourth time, the police came along...
Last week's show was the usual blend of acerbic wit and creatively outrageous expropriations of popular songs. Songs like "Stand By Your Klan" and "If I Weren't a Rich Man" (with George Bush singing) are merely the beginning. Strauss and Newport steal songs from the thirties--"Forget Your Rubles, Come On Get Preppy," disco--"Keep Him Alive" (a prayer for the President), and even summer camp as a Palestinian delegate to the peace process sings "Hello, Mullah, hello Fatah, here I am at intifada...
...Where does poetic justice stop? In some countries they cut off your hand if you steal...