Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horse up a steep hill to a castle; at the same time I was told to hold on to a live hawk with a glinting brown eye," says Broderick, who was last seen on-screen playing WarGames with a renegade Defense Department computer. This time he is a young thief who dashes to the aid of a beautiful princess and her cavalier, under a spell that turns her into a hawk by day and the cavalier into a wolf by night. Actors have had scenes with predators before, but most of them were agents. Broderick confesses that he was "scared...
...others each week have been abducted by teams of efficient criminals. Stealing up on their prey at break of dawn and using either tranquilizers or tantalizing goodies, the catnapers spirit the animals away to clinical experimenters, who require some 300 specimens each day. At $20 a cat, a resourceful thief can earn $50,000 a year...
...Brenneman amazes us with her precocious Alice that retains her youthful naivete the entire evening, her strong voice is captivating though she occasionally strains to hit high notes. Brenneman especially shines in her solo, "Who Stole the Tarts," a song about the procedings of her trial as a pastry thief. In an amazing rapid-pace monologue, she imitates all the other characters at the trial, as she darts about the tree-stump proscenium...
...19th century, the aphorism had become a favorite of the English. Oscar Wilde exposed the flip side of bromides: "Punctuality is the thief of time"; "Old enough to know worse." But he could be as pontifical as the next prince: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it"; "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." George Bernard Shaw saw the aphorism as the new home for political slogans: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." His contemporary G.K. Chesterton was the last master of the paradox: "Silence is the unbearable...
...South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from the wall Rembrandt's painting of Jacob de Gheyn III, worth $5 million. Police roared up within three minutes to find both thief and painting gone...