Word: thief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is one mark of a movie star-even in her worst, or least, films. For example, French Kiss (co-produced by Ryan), which achieves a level of agreeable inanity only after a grating first hour or so. As a jilted fianca who hooks up with a Gallic jewel thief (Kevin Kline), Ryan cedes all the charm to Kline while remaining the center of attraction. Even in this wan caper, though, she is bold in her playing of an insecure woman who is so intense she seems dense. Her clear blue eyes widen in a perpetual double take...
...seven runs scored and 4 RBI. Yesterday, the junior shortstop broke the Harvard single-season stolen base record with two in the second game, giving her a total of 17. She broke her own record of 15 that she set last year and is Harvard's all-time leading thief...
More than the other films, "Decalogue 7"--"Thou shall not steal"--strikingly portrays how opposing figures can play the same roles. Majka bears a child at 16, which her mother claims as her own. Seven years later, Majka decides to steal her daughter back. The role of "thief" is a shared one. Majka may have reason for reclaiming the daughter who was stolen from her, but she is also stealing her daughter from the life that was familiar to her, and the people whom she had loved. Kieslowski turns his lens with equal acuity on each character, sparing...
Janiak said he had no idea why the thief overlooked the thousands of dollars of computer equipment and CDs he also had in the room and took the "worthless" sculpture, which Janiak said he just kept for kicks. It did not even look valuable, he said, painted gold and sporting a gluedback...
When making an independent move on a relative stranger, remember that pickup lines don't work. Nobody really says things like, "Was your father a thief? I'd like to know just who stole the stars and put them in your eyes...