Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life and who hijacks Clemens' boat on the Riverworld. But while these two books and the third volume, The Dark Design, drop some clues about the creators of the fantastic planet, none provides the solution to the mystery...
Horse specializes in conning his friends, trading his superb drumming talent for money and favors. Unhappy with life as a studio musician, he buys a motorcycle in order to sell records to shops in Kingston. When Mafia hoods steal his bike, then beat him, Horse decides it's time to exact revenge from rich Mr. Big, who happens to have a beautiful daughter named Sunshine. It's all very silly, of course, and it concludes with the same moral as any Robin Hood fable...
...Detroit, the capital of an auto industry that has been forced to lay off one-third of its workers. While the Republicans were getting ready to throw their big bash and coronation, Carter swept through town en route to Japan and illustrated the power of a President to steal headlines from his opponents by acting on problems they can only denounce...
...Eleazar Ruelas-slipped across the border and soon stopped to refill their water jug on land leased by the Hanigans. A man, later identified by the Mexicans as Thomas Hanigan, drove by in a pickup truck and yelled out, "Hey, wetbacks, where are you going? Are you going to steal or rob?" Hanigan allegedly forced the Mexicans into his truck at gunpoint and then summoned his father George, 67, and brother Patrick, who accused the Mexicans of robbing his trailer home the previous month. The Hanigans, according to police, next stripped and tied the Mexicans and beat them with pistols...
...will tell you, but only if you ask, it's not everyone who gets to spend their nights on a park bench, awakened three or four times each night by the Boston Police, bothered by kids who won't let him enjoy his high in peace, who want to steal his dope or just jabber with him because they're still soaring...