Word: backseaters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recollections of a Connecticut limousine driver who described to the plaintiffs during deposition how, during a trip from a board meeting at the Forschner Group, a knife company, the former pro-football star used one of the complimentary knives he had just been given to demonstrate in the backseat how a person could kill someone. That conversation took place in the week before the murder. Petrocelli felt that both of those people were credible, but their stories just did not fit into the thesis he was engineering...
...sumptuous work of art whose engine is the first V-8 ever produced by Jaguar and only the fourth engine in its history. The price is for royal bloods too at $69,900 for the convertible model. It is the only one of the new models to offer a backseat--though just big enough to cart home the groceries in leather. It's the British company's first sports car since the showpiece--and mechanically damned--XKE ended production 22 years...
When recounting their most memorable incident or passenger, Harvard Square cab drivers inevitably describe a Harvard student returning from a night of alcohol and debauchery who vomits the contents of a wild night on the backseat floor...
...department, there are many doubts about the long-term significance of Gates' project. Some critics, like Temple's Asante, charge that under Gates and West, stardom has replaced substance. The two spend so much time speaking and writing for outside groups that their scholarly pursuits seem to take a backseat. Example: The Future of the Race, a forthcoming book in which Gates and West offer critiques of Du Bois's famous essay, "The Talented Tenth" (in which he argued that only by creating a small group of college-educated men could blacks achieve their racial destiny). Though Gates' eloquence...
...pathologist who conducted the autopsies on Michael and Alex, described death by drowning in excruciating detail. And while jurors were spared the autopsy photos, they did view videotaped re-enactments of Smith's Mazda rolling into John D. Long Lake. In one shot by a camera mounted in the backseat of the car, jurors were able to see approximately what Michael and Alex saw in their final six minutes of life--water rising inexorably higher inside...