Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Oswald was killed, sympathetic people sent Marina some $60,000. She moved into a $15,000, three-bedroom, air-conditioned brick house in a Dallas suburb. She had her teeth fixed, now affects fashionable coiffures and Neiman-Marcus clothes. She bought her own membership in Dallas' Music Box, a private club, and she turns up frequently with dates. Marina tosses down shots of vodka, chases them with 7-Up. She often outdrinks her escorts, despite the fact that when Oswald was alive he forbade her to drink hard liquor. She chain-smokes, though Oswald once slapped...
...Fein had no weakness for television, he had a couple of others to make up for it. As president of his father's thriving tin-can and cardboard-box business, he seemed to have everything he needed-the best clothes, a sleek, white Lincoln Continental, an eight-room Park Avenue apartment in which he maintained his attractive wife, Nancy, and their three children. But Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent...
This was going to be the season of the big thaw-the melting of the $10 million glacier of box-office ice, which is Broadway's term for ticket scalpers' profits. But last week Manhattan's District Attorney arrested nine ticket salesmen on charges of scalping. Tickets to How to Succeed were selling for $20 apiece, and " the scalpers were even dealing in ducats for the lowly New York Mets...
Admirers, cheer conoisseurs, and the curious may purchase tickets ($250 and up) at the Fenway Park box office...
...transforms it into a bending dynamic structure is appropriate. The NH symbol on a New Haven railway car, though it can be perceived in several ways (for example, with the figure-ground relationships of the letters changing), nevertheless strongly resists abstraction into its component parts. For a whizzing box car, that is appropriate...