Word: hatbox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...optical illusion," she says, laughing. A cab driver this morning gave her an "uh-huh" reaction when she said she was a model. The days are gone, clearly, when a model getting out of a New York taxi meant furs, a flash of great legs and a telltale hatbox. Clotilde's mufti is early L.L. Bean ? galluses, a checked shirt and baggy cords ? because it is easy and inconspicuous, unlikely to attract muggers in the scruffy neighborhoods where photographers' studios are often located. What Clotilde and most of the other successful models...
...That Men Do-, a bored housewife writes a love letter to a man who, unknown to her, has just been run over by a truck. In The Cat Jumps, a couple buys a house whose previous owner had murdered and dismembered his wife ("He put her heart in her hatbox. He said it belonged in there...