Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wilson's theater, ideas are pictures. He lights his tableaux with hallucinatory intensity, populating them with actors, all in white makeup, who move with a combination of stiffness and grace. His performers enact archetypes rather than characters, using stylized gestures and movements out of his globe trotter's trunk. In the past, watching a Wilson event has sometimes been like finding yourself in a dream you want to -- but can't -- get out of. Here, given the fairy-tale story and nutty good humor, his somnambulistic style seems absolutely right...
Almost all of the cosmic matter that survives to hit the Earth is nothing more than a curiosity. A mysterious lump of iron is found in a cornfield; a twenty-two pound rock appears amid the demolished trunk of a car in Peekskill, New York just last year. The Harvard Geological Museum contains dozens of examples, carefully classified by composition, ranging from a few ounces to over a hundred pounds...
...last year, quite a bit had changed. Much to my father's chagrin, we couldn't repeat last year's successful race to be the first car in the Yard. Instead, I awoke in Albany, New York on that fateful Friday to sheets of rain outside. A leaky trunk and a bicycle strapped to the car, along with the prospect of sopping computers, books, and clothes when I moved in, pretty much ruined the day. By the time I arrived and was sentenced to Jordan, I barely flinched...
...immune -- not even the police. A Glendale, California, police detective was leaving work one night last year when he was jumped in the police parking lot by four men, one with a shotgun. They said they wanted his car and ordered him into the trunk. The detective broke away and leaped over the railing of the police parking structure, falling one story below as the carjackers fired at him. He wasn't hit, but he suffered lacerations to his forehead in the fall. Says Randy Ballin, head of the California Highway Patrol's Los Angeles auto-theft unit, who investigated...
...ship them across borders. (See following story.) Overall, about a quarter of stolen cars end up in chop shops, where they are taken apart and resold for as much as triple their value whole. Two skilled choppers with power tools can cut up a car from hood to trunk in three minutes. The demand is huge: a thief can steal a $10,000 Nissan Sentra, strip it and sell the parts for $20,000 to $25,000. While luxury cars are always tempting, among the most popular cars to steal, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, are: the Pontiac...