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...along, it was the inner game of baseball that truly interested Cobb: theft of a base, the hit and run, advancing from first to third on a bunt and unbounded psyching of the opponent. He knew, for example, that Walter Johnson had a lethal fastball but that he never threw at the batter. So Cobb crowded the plate and worked the fireballer for walks and opposite-field hits. Cobb often drooped listlessly at the plate, then ran the bases furiously, colliding with infielders and leaving their blood in the dust. All along, he bench-jockeyed with the worst of them...
...Cutler, is a rogue undone by his few fleeting moments of trust and devotion. A former male prostitute, he becomes infatuated with a blond boy as pretty and venal as he used to be. Cutler knows that he is being used. Even so, his sexual itch drives him to theft, fraud and murder. Each crime makes him more subject to blackmail. The tale moves toward its climax with a mounting sense of catastrophe, but who will destroy whom, and how, remains uncertain until the final pages. Hansen writes as ably as anyone in the genre about the consequences of lust...
...officer was dispatched to Mather House to investigate the theft of a black pocketbook, including a silver Sprint cell phone. The stolen items were valued...
...endlessly rips off events, shots, and makeup effects from better movies. When it comes out on video, this could lead to a good drinking game: do a shot whenever you see a theft (“homage,” if you prefer) from another movie. Off the top of my head, I found “The Sixth Sense,” “The Shining,” “The Exorcist,” “Poltergeist,” “The Ring,” the video for Nine Inch Nails?...
Tribe added that he was “gratified that the University’s inquiry found no basis for accusations of dishonesty or of intellectual theft...