Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steam locomotive, returns as an observation car and finally as a university building. In the two courtroom scenes, it is never clear who is on trial. The illuminated cubicles of the spaceship's interior, with flashing lights and moving silhouettes, resemble a grownup's busy box. Einstein has very little to do with the proceedings, although sometimes he fiddles furiously from a raised platform in the pit. Wilson's art reflects the work he has done as a behavioral therapist with autistic children. His personal view of man as a daydreamer watching his own interior screen fuels...
...paid. The lottery-winning "millionaire" who makes TV news shows and tabloid front pages is lucky if he nets about $30,000 a year?and then has to fight off hordes of hungry relatives, strapped friends, charities and con men who expect him to share the largesse (see box). Starting in January, anybody who wins $1,000 or more on any lottery or by betting on or off any track will have 20% of his payoff withheld against taxes. Snaps New York OTB Chairman Paul Screvane: "Illegal gambling has the best partner in the world?the Government. We just...
...special cards for black grandfathers and for soul sisters. Worried about ecology? A Chicago company sells 300 designs printed on recycled paper. Got expensive tastes? Bloomingdale's in New York City offered a reproduction of Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette at $183 for a box of 100. (It was sold out by October.) Cheap tastes? Any Woolworth's still sells boxes of 25 cards for $1.50. No taste whatsoever? There are X-rated Christmas cards bearing such legends as "The least you could do is give me an obscene phone call" and "Fondle me with...
...indecision is final," an Astor deputy once quipped.) But the paper is still firmly plugged into the Old Boy network of Oxbridge dons, senior civil servants and other privileged subjects who have helped run Britain -and the Observer-for decades. Ownership of the Observer will give Anderson a box seat in that select circle, a valuable asset in a business as politically sensitive as oil. Indeed, Anderson has announced plans for an "international advisory council" of leading businessmen, politicians and educators to assist the paper's board of directors. "Great corporate enterprises need to do things that make their...
...associations, and a gift of $30,000 from the National Rifle Association in Washington, D.C. But it also reported receiving, in six installments, a total of $71,000 from a group called the Gun Owners Action League. Strangely enough, the Gun Owners Action League also lists its address as Box 272 at 11 Main Street in Southboro. There may be nothing illegal or even unethical about the arrangement between the Taxpayers Against Question 5 and the Gun Owners Action League. But there is something suspicious about it: in the past, committees like the Action League have been used to take...