Word: snatchers
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...have already emerged. One cornerstone show is Ripley's Believe It or Not!, starring Jack Palance as a sort of host-narrator who guides the gullible down shadowy byways of history, folklore, sociology and pseudo science. Palance, who has the congeniality of Robert Louis Stevenson's body snatcher, goes in for twisted smiles of irony, as if he were trying to bite open a marble. He is the only presiding television host who actually seems to pronounce ellipses. When he says, "Witness the death rites of a Balinese prince in a fiery ceremony designed to release his soul...
...Baby Love, stealing means survival. He is the best gold-chain snatcher on the block. "I pretends to be making a phone call when the bus be comin' along," he explains, "so the driver won't warn the passengers. Then when it be by, I's leapin' in the air with my hand through the window and gone befo' anyone sees." He breaks into laughter, slapping skin all round. He has been caught five times this summer for pickpocketing. At Macy's he was caught boosting eight blue Izod Lacoste shirts in his Adidas...
...thriller about urban terror. But not long after the initial murders, Gould changes tone and gives us "A Day in the Life of a N.Y. Cop." As Murphy and Corelli save a Puerto Rican drag queen from suicide, subdue a knife-wielding derelict, chase a swift purse-snatcher, (angle with a slimy pimp, and deliver the child of an unwed fourteen-year-old, the movie becomes an inner city Adam...
...claim that Ezera made was that "the only thing that could have kept him out of court would have been a different skin color." Well, of course, if he were white, he wouldn't have fit the woman's description of the purse snatcher. But, on the other hand, if a white person were identified three times as a purse snatcher (as Ezera was), there is no evidence that he would not also have been arrested. In fact, from the defendant's statement, "I felt sure that when I flashed my Harvard ID, that would be it," it appears that...
...upset in the 1970 election, and Thatcher was soon named Secretary of State for Education and Science, where she gained a reputation for toughness. While demanding more money for her department, she cut out free milk for elementary school children, thus earning the cruel sobriquet "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher." Heath had agreed to her appointment only because he felt it was good politics to have a woman in the Cabinet. "The chemistry between them was not good," recalls a Cabinet colleague...