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...RECEIVING MY ISSUE OF TIME, I CAREfully removed the cover, ripped it in half, put it in the trash compactor and turned the switch. What bliss! RICHARD S. KOCHAN Washington...
Locker must have felt more pressure than a warm Dr. pepper or Harrison Ford in the trash compactor of the Death Star. But he was guardedly optimistic, saying only, "We'll see how it goes...
...representatives from various University groups such as Environmental Health and Safety, Facilities Maintenance, Building Operations, and the College Dining Halls. The band of ratbusters worked on the rodent problem for the next 21 months, implementing reforms such as rat-proof garbage cans in the Yard and self-contained compactor units that are impermeable to rodents...
...trash compactor was running, and when I heard the baby crying, I turned it off," says McArthur Williams, a porter at the housing project. "If it hadn't cried, the baby would have been gone for sure." Patrol sergeant | Philip Insardi, who was summoned to the scene, said he crawled through the compactor's small metal doors and shined a flashlight onto the mount of garbage that was about to be squeezed between the machine's walls. "His feet were sticking out from under some newspapers," he said. "He wasn't making a peep when I got there." Insardi whipped...
...slight problem with Trust, George V. Higgins' 20th book, is that Earl's task is simple. He pulls off the theft easily; for fairly complicated reasons, the intended victim wants the car to disappear. Unfortunately, Earl ignores the instructions to have the hot auto crushed in a trash compactor. He sells it instead, a characteristic act of greed that promises to get him in trouble. But Higgins seems much more interested in atmosphere than in denouement. There are long, long passages of the author's by now patented low-life banter, characters being long-winded and tedious about the banalities...