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...Quick as the wind that often stirred the banana trees with utter ferocity in his home town, where his favorite horse had died an alcoholic death, the smart copper jumped on the thief just as the sinister individual was about to ride off on his faithful vehicle...
...veto laws, the Parliament can overrule him with a two-thirds majority. By contrast, Zahir Shah's father in 1931 hamstrung the legislature, demanding that the King be mentioned in Friday prayers at the mosque, and hewed closely to Koranic justice that lopped off the hands of a thief...
...SMART! (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). "Our Man in Leotards." A secret drug is stolen from CONTROL by a leaping thief, and Secret Agent 86 suspects a renowned Latin American ballet dancer. Color...
...Thief! Clown! Animal!" screamed the crowds in Lima's Plaza de Acho, and then, worst of all: "Dancer!" Fumed Bullfight Critic Leonidas Rivera: "There he stood, the most famous matador in Spain, where he just set a record of 111 fights in a single season: a rattled young man trying to get it over with in as short a time and with as little risk to himself as possible. He did not improve things when he kicked the bull in the snout, and he looked simply grotesque when he charged his second bull with head lowered and butted...
...ever published, Author Constantine FitzGibbon demonstrates with vivid detail that the reality sometimes outdid the legend. As a longtime friend of Dylan's, FitzGibbon is painfully aware of the flaws in his subject's character. Dylan, he says flatly, was a slob, a liar, a moocher, a thief, a two-fisted boozefighter, a puffy Priapus who regularly assaulted the wives of his best friends, an icy little hedonist who indifferently lived it up while his children went hungry. Yet at the same time, says Friend FitzGibbon, Dylan was generous, kind, charming and stupendously witty, a genius who failed...