The
kleptomaniac cycle starts with an unbearable urge to steal something, not with the intention of profit but as an impulsive push.
Praise for "
Kleptomaniac: Who's Really Robbing God Anyway?"
Unlike the perfect Juhu Janes in Bollywood, she's gawky, has quirks that include eating toothpaste and is a borderline
kleptomaniac. When she's tripping out on pills she tends to blink furiously and do weird things with her face.
It must be this stress that has turned her into a
kleptomaniac - but as she sees Janine gazing at a family photograph she spots a way out of her dilemma.
A POSTMAN was dubbed a
kleptomaniac in court after targeting valuablelooking packages and failing to deliver more than 9,000 items.
The Middle East is awash with oil money and determined, this time round, to spend some and invest some (in sovereign wealth funds), not lend it to western banks to squander on loans to
kleptomaniac dictators (as in the 1970s).
Kat's voice is one with which many will identify regardless of whether or not they possess any
kleptomaniac tendencies.
Bakhtin, who, in the effort to finish an essay on the rules governing the relationship between author and character, rents a room in a dacha owned by a family--an unfaithful wife, a tyrannical grandfather, a
kleptomaniac teenager--whose problems so absorb Bakhtin's attention that he cannot pull himself away from the domestic drama long enough to write about the author's struggle to separate himself from the characters he has created out of himself- For all of the ironies and philosophical play, Bakhtin and Others develops characters of flesh and blood.
For the record, pic also features co-scripter Elvira Lindo as a
kleptomaniac and Lindo's husband, novelist Antonio Munoz Molina, as one of Miguel's patients.
Paul Zindel's Amulets Against the Dragon Forces, a new play at the Circle Repertory, is another sort of Gothic drama, putting a dying widow, an alcoholic gay longshoreman, a hustler, a
kleptomaniac itinerant nurse and her misfit adolescent son under one roof in Staten Island in the 1950s.
According to scuttlebutt, GT is a full-blown
kleptomaniac.
Out Thursday The life of a
kleptomaniac charted by the objects he steals, a love story told backwards and a rollicking tale of an actor on the run for his life are just some of the subjects of this elegant collection of short stories.