Word: compartmental
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Often the checkers simply glance at one compartment of a backpack or skip the check altogether. For all the double-checking, it would be easy enough to hide a book in other compartments or jacket pockets. Furthermore, anything short of patting down library patrons as they exit will do little...
It is a place time forgot. The train yards, the vintage Soviet equipment, the windswept platform and the concrete stationhouse slowly crumble to dust. The physical plant is a throwback. So too is the human element. There are interminable delays for border formalities, with uniformed troops surrounding the train and...
OUTBACK BARD The west coast of Australia has long drawn some of the country's greatest writers, photographers and artists. But few have captured the essence of this stark, ruggedly beautiful territory like local resident and author Tim Winton. His most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his...
GLOVE COMPARTMENT You need a phone in your car or handbag for emergencies but probably won't use it much.
I gave my Cambridge kitchen to the Smithsonian and most of my culinary books to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard. But I picked out what I really needed, mostly reference works like the Larousse Gastronomique and specialty volumes such as those on Russian and Moroccan cooking. I kept only those...