Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is more than a trace of whimsicality to the man. Assuming, of course, that it was whimsicality that prompted him to saw George Roy Hill's desk in half with a chain saw and to put 300 live chicks into Director Robert Altman's trailer when they were on location with Buffalo
...feet away outside is a gleaming white tractor-trailer labeled BOB SHARP RACING. This is the team's machine shop and car van. Sharp is a Connecticut Datsun dealer and former racing champion who prepares the cars that Newman races. He says that Newman is faster around the track than last year; his reflexes have not slowed. It took him a couple of years, but he learned how to be a winning driver. The other drivers quickly got over the fact that his eyes are blue. He has great concentration, almost a woman's delicacy, guts enough...
...runs out of race, and although he is gaining fast, at the end he is still 2.5 sec. behind Winner Doug Bethke's Corvette. Newman jokes with Bethke on the victory stand, puts his arm around Joanne, smiles for the photographers, and then goes back to the trailer to rage. Later, very seriously, he apologizes for losing. He does not really cheer up until the awards dinner that night, when, looking as impish as Butch Cassidy, he succeeds in smuggling a camera bag full...
Following a tip from an informant, law-enforcement officials in the small Massachusetts port town of Fairhaven tailed a tractor-trailer to Mullen's wharf earlier this month. As they watched, a 71-ft. fishing boat called Tiki X unloaded its cargo: 30 tons of pot. By dawn's light, police had arrested 26 men; all were later charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to violate state narcotics laws. The next morning, about 400 miles southeast of Cape Cod, a Coast Guard cutter intercepted the Biscayne Freeze, a 240-ft. freighter registered in Panama. After firing five rounds...
...Willy enlists the help of Howard's girl, Benita (Bette Midler). Together, they plot against Howard. Willy because he will lose his job it Howard wins big one more time, and Benita because she's tired of Howard's drunken abuse and of life in they aluminum trailer outside Reno...