Word: cabin
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Hanson told the Crimson that wrote the book this past summer in her family's cabin in the woods of Michigan. Lest she give the impression of a Thoreauvian romp in the woods, however, she warns, "I wouldn't say it was the most pleasant experience.... I wish I had other work to do." She adds that the life of a writer sometimes got to her because "it was very solitary...
...artist Edward Kienholz's last piece was his burial, which took place at a hunting cabin he owned on top of a mountain in Hope, Idaho, in 1994. He had died of a heart attack at age 65, and now his corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe. There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him and the ashes of his dog Smash in the back. He was set for the afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered...
...between federal agents and the freemen entering its fifth week, it's time to call in the heavy-duty negotiators. Enter James "Bo" Gritz, former Green Beret colonel and a leading figure in the far right "patriot" movement. After three days of meeting with the remaining fugitives in their cabin, Gritz and Jack McLamb brought back a 26-page document of what Gritz called "legal mumbo-jumbo." The Freemen authored document challenges the constitutionality of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and other branches of government. Gritz announced the Freemen are prepared to surrender, "if the United States government...
Hence their satisfaction about what turned up in the cabin, even before the manuscript surfaced. In addition to the bombmaking notes and paraphernalia and the half-made bomb they found immediately, agents soon encountered a finished product: they had to delay the search while they defused it. Its structural peculiarities, experts said, were exactly those of the Unabomber bombs. The searchers also discovered a piece of paper with the words "hit list" written above "airline industry," "computer industry" and "geneticists." Evidence from the cabin was so strong, federal officials said, that it might convict Kaczynski without having to match...
...typewriter next to it; and the FBI had previously determined by examining the manifesto sent to the papers, the Unabomber's missives to various newspapers and a gloating note to one victim that all three emerged from the same machine. In fact, lying next to the treatise in the cabin was a version of one of the bomber's letters to the New York Times. As America's trial watchers are aware, there is no such thing as a sure thing. But the federal agents in Montana, at least, are convinced that the proof is in and the hermit...