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When attached to the tire, the boot renders a car immobile by clamping onto the rim of the tire and locking it in place. The boot also covers the hub cap, thus preventing a motorist from merely taking off the locked tire...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: City Parking Violators to Get the Boot | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

...dream shattered against the rim of the Harvard basket, as key shots by Donald Fleming. Bob Ferry and Calvin Dixon slammed against the orange-painted metal and failed to drop through the twine. Harvard, now 3-4 in the Ivies, collapsed and lost, 79-62. After a shaky start, Penn is in first place at 5-2. What else...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Crimson Slips Past Princeton; Falls to Quakers | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

...what she drew: three children gathering rice in a field. A Khmer Rouge soldier has a rifle trained on them, "to keep them working." Off to the left of he picture is the device. It looks like a wheel with a hollow hub and spokes leading out to the rim. Or perhaps it is a doughnut with lines on it. Three extra lines extend from the outer rim at he bottom, giving the thing the appearance of an insect. At the top there is yet another line sticking out at an angle to the right, the end of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

When ball careemed off the back board, slammed into the front of the rim, and then dropped cleanly through the twines, the crowd could not restrain itself. Even the Merrimackians leapt to their feet and bellowed their admiration for this titan from the wheat belt. Nancy catapulted from her seat to give the conqueror a well-deserved victory embrace...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Beloit Bomber | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...jealous rage Don José kills two men-his lieutenant Zuniga and Carmen's husband García (a character in Mérim&233;e's story). By the time Carmen's turn comes, he has nothing left to lose, no emotion to spend, and he plunges a knife into the kneeling woman's back as if he were an executioner doing his job. For her part, Carmen is an even more explicitly sexual creature than she is usually portrayed. She sings the famous Habanera while engaging in some erotic byplay with a cigar, thrusting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carmen, but Not Bizet's | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

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