Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from one film to another. Others, usually actors from the past like Gary Cooper or Cary Grant, pour the role into themselves. Grant could be a stumble-footed comic in pictures like Bringing Up Baby and Arsenic and Old Lace or an urbane romantic hero in To Catch a Thief or North by Northwest, but no one would ever have mistaken him for anyone but Cary Grant...
...mounted patrols pleased downtown businessmen, and he delighted the rank and file by taking to the streets himself when things got slow at headquarters. He has made dozens of % collars in his car, on foot and on horseback, and gained some national publicity when he nabbed a bicycle thief while roller-skating. As for the department, "our morale is the highest it's ever been," reports the head of the police association, "and it's because of the chief." But the accomplishment that pleases Greenberg most is his full-scale assault on crime in black neighborhoods. "That's my constituency...
While the cagers and icement--before huge crowds and much fanfare--have been marching to the top of their respective leagues, the wrestlers have quietly managed to become one of the best teams in New England and are in the midst of a battle to take the thief first Ivy League title ever...
...Book of One's Own is filled with such arch utterances. F. Scott Fitzgerald plants a definition in his notebook: "Debut--the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public." Choreographer Martha Graham admits, "I am a thief --and I am not ashamed. I steal from the best wherever it happens to me --Plato--Picasso--Bertram Ross--the members of my company never show me anything--except (to) expect me to steal...
...Arthur Young study showed that thanks to antishoplifting devices and diligent controls, stealing this year is down 10% from 1983. Last year 700,000 people were arrested for shoplifting. But Peter Berlin, who publishes a newsletter about shoplifting for the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse, says that only one thief in ten is prosecuted. Because of the high cost of trying cases, most stores usually just drop them...