Word: thief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pharisaical fans hang your head in shame, for while you were sleeping, Fenway's faithful snuck out of the Square like a thief in the night and made their pilgrimage to the Promised Land, 24 Jersey...
...other. Anarchy jibes with his definition of the limit of freedom: "the small movement which makes of a totally conditioned social being someone who does not render back completely what his conditioning has given him. Which makes Genet a poet when he had been rigorously conditioned to be a thief." The Invisible Man affirms his freedom when he says...
...quite. Frazier labors like a thief in the night-alone and almost totally ignored. His arrival ceremony in the Philippines barely lasted a minute. He sticks close to his suite where he peels grapefruit and plays high-stakes blackjack with his sparring partners to pass the time. On his first morning of roadwork, he found the Manila streets clogged with joggers; he was later granted special government permission to start before the national curfew is lifted at 4 a.m. In the afternoon, he retreats to his dressing room, which is decorated in the same red and blue motif that jazzes...
Again, as in "Goin' to Acapulco," Dylan is acting a part, and there is no actor anywhere better than Bob Dylan. When he asks rhetorically "Why am I always the one who must be the thief?" his voice seeps with the bitterness of a father cast as a villain when all he ever intended was love...
...those belonging to the pastoral life of Bohemia, it is the Autolycus of Fred Gwynne that stands high above the rest, His rubbery face and his antic movements are a joy and though he is a liar and a thief (like his protonym in Greek mythology), one can't help loving the rascal, Gwynne has a way of taking lines that are obscure on the page and making them seem perfectly natural. He can also put over Shakespeare's puns--as when, in a colloquy about a three-voice song,he turns a ballad scroll into a phallus while assuring...