Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occupations: drawing and traveling, the one nourishing the other. He did not work en route, which is one reason why Steinberg's drawings of places all look equally exotic: their abnormality is a refraction of memory, whether of Paris, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Tashkent, Palermo or Samarkand (whose telephone directory, stolen by him in 1956 and listing 100 subscribers, is one of Steinberg's more cherished souvenirs). Provoked by a "geographical snobbism," he and his wife, the artist Hedda Sterne?they were married in 1944 and fondly separated without divorcing 16 years later?became epicures of travel...
...warning was believed to be a hoax, but criminals nonetheless had good reason for wanting Moro found. Common crime in the capital has dropped 60%. Car thefts, which total as many as 150 a day in Rome, have declined dramatically. Police are recovering between 40 and 60 stolen autos a day: the thieves abandon them for fear of being caught at a roadblock...
...emotion and energy they seem to get from playing this game; they feel such crushing disappointment or such a spirit-lifting intoxication, all depending on whether their team can successfully hit more of these woolly eggs than can their opponents. Why this frenzy over tennis? What thief has stolen these players' perspectives? After all tennis is just a game...
...some good sun, meet some interesting people, and find the good nightclubs, the bad clubs, and, accidentally, the gay clubs; five days was enough to drink a little too much, sunburn a little too much, meet too many strangers, and get a few too many of our belongings stolen. We left Fort Lauderdale as we left New England--under cloudy skies...
...thefts occurred last week at Hemenway Gym, a University police officer said yesterday. A leather coat and $50 were stolen on Monday, April 3, between 9 and 11 a.m., Captain Jack Morse of the University police said yesterday...