Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Successful in 76% of his steals, Henderson is not a thinking man's thief. He has already passed Ty Cobb's 67-year-old record of getting caught 38 times. His weapons are instinct and power; his massive thighs and torso are the secret of his speed. Even his smooth features and swept-back hair seem aerodynamically designed. Says White Sox Coach Ron Schueler: "He's faster than Brock. He simply outruns the ball...
...with sharpened sticks and trip wires attached to crossbows. Farmers say the measures are taken to foil rustlers more than the police. Still, they present a menace to both. A deputy sheriff in Oklahoma was shot to death last fall by a guard who had mistaken him for a thief...
...whose Fortune Teller raises narrative to a pitch of ironic theater worthy of Caravaggio himself. It is a raffish image of tavern survival: the old circular comedy, as the gypsy woman bilks a credulous soldier while a man steals her chicken and a little girl lifts the thief's purse...
Henry IV, Part 1, has one huge epicenter, that Santa Claus of roguery, Sir John Falstaff. The old knight is as nimble of wit as his belly is full of sack, a braggart, a liar, a thief, a cynic and a coward, but with all that an irresistibly endearing tub of bubbling jollity. Early on, Falstaff (Joss Ackland) chides the heir apparent Prince Hal (Gerard Murphy), who has made the Boar's Head Tavern his home away from the castle, for leading him into evil ways...
Little is known about Rasputin's early life. The man who told the Tsar who succeeding ministers should be and where to deploy troops appears to have been an ex-horse thief. Certainly he was an alcoholic and a womanizer. At the end of a night spent listening to gypsy music, he would reel after prostitutes, the gold cross the Tsarina had given him swinging from his neck...