Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Youth League was locked out of its office and had its literature seized. We were replaced by none other than the infamous Harvard Delivery News Service (one of whose directors has allegedly absconded with thousands of dollars in funds). Then last semester, after having been evicted for this alleged thief's benefit, the house co-master at Currier approached an SYL literature table, accused the SYL of being a "security risk" and threw us off the premises as if we were common criminals. This semester the administration has continued this campaign by harassing SYL literature distributors at the Kennedy School...
...name was Padre Tito de Alencar Lima ... Captain Mauricio said to you, 'Now you will know the local office of hell.' " Those who prefer the unexamined aphorism may choose: "The bitter discovery that God does not exist has destroyed the concept of fate" or "Death is a thief that never turns up by surprise." Devotees of the mixed metaphor will prize: "Riding on this illusion you hurled yourself against the windmills of your chosen dragon." Although Fallaci's junta villains are as gross as editorial cartoons, it is difficult to separate dragon, windmills and Quixote. For throughout...
...computer thieves, often striking from within, have embezzled millions of dollars. In 1978 a consultant got a Los An geles bank's computer to transfer $10.2 million to his out-of-town account. Only a confederate's tip led to his discovery. To be a computer-age thief, you need nothing more than an inexpensive home computer, a telephone and a few light-fingered skills. As in the Dalton case, computer passwords are often short and simple. Be sides, computer networks like Telenet or Datapac, frequently publicize their numbers to attract customers. Once into the computer system, there...
KAGEMUSHA begins with a simple tableau: a Japanese feudal lord, Shingen (Tatsya Nakada), sits in the center of the screen: on the left is his brother (Tsutomu Yamakazi); in the lower right corner is a thief (Tatsuya Nakada), whom the brother has plucked from a crucifix because he bears a strong resemblance to Shingen. An austere composition, the lord virtually immobile, the camera immobile, the long scene played out in one shot. Later, after the lord. Shingen, has been assassinated, we learn that he was called the Moutain, that the Moutain did not move, and therein was his strength...
Kagemusha is magnificently served by Tatsuya Nakada as Shingen and his double, the thief. Nakada has white, puffed-out sideburns, and capacious sacks beneath his beautiful liquid eyes. As Shingen they convey warehouses of wisdom; as the thief they are the befuddled eyes of a clown. Eventually the two personas merge; so powerful is Shingen's spirit that merely by acting naturally the thief begins to duplicate his actions, almost to think his thoughts. When Shingen's son, Katsuyori, eager to assume his dead father's power by exposing the double, challenges the compulsorily silent double at a large meeting...