Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking about betrayal," says First Wives author Olivia Goldsmith, who was herself downsized by divorce. "These guys are stealing not only the present but also the past. And after they steal part of your life, then they steal your property." After Goldsmith wrote the best-selling novel in 1992, her publisher sponsored a First Wife contest. "We received 1,500 letters, and they were tragic," she says. "I had never been so depressed." (The winning entry was like so many others: a husband runs off with his secretary after 23 years of marriage, leaving the wife to cope with...
...runner on first has a notion to steal second. The first baseman has a notion to slip behind him. The pitcher has a notion to pick him off, but he delivers to the plate where the batter swings to protect the runner who decides to go now, and the second baseman braces himself to make the tag if only the catcher can rise to the occasion and put a low, hard peg inside...
...olds, but the hosts' offbeat affability and unpatronizing tone have made it a favorite among grownups too. In many areas ratings for Kratts' Creatures have doubled since its debut in June, fan mail for the brothers swarms into PBS offices daily, and CBS and Fox are already hankering to steal the show away...
...producer; his actress mother appeared in a '60s Star Trek episode, "Wolf in the Fold," as a princess killed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper); adapting Fred Allen's famous jape about television, he says, "Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood." He knows that movies are to steal from. "More than any other genre," Devlin says, "science fiction cannot deny what comes before it. So, when we did a science-fiction film, especially one like this, where we wanted to have fun, we said, 'Let's out-and-out pay tribute wherever we can to movies that came...
...conquer the aliens. They control the screen. And when they do it well, they control us, as cunningly as an ID4 alien running a mind scan on a puny Earthling. Only after the lights come up can we shake off the fear, say, "It's only a movie," and steal an anxious glance at the night...