Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organic interchange between nature and art. On the other hand, a group of Americans spent five days in 1853 cutting down a 3,000-year-old sequoia, 302 ft. high and 96 ft. in circumference. They polished the stump into a dance floor and hollowed out the fallen trunk to make a bowling alley. The sacred and profane commingled, usually at the expense of the sacred...
...business that it has become a Columbo trademark, often occurring more than once in a single scene. Trademark No. 1, the magnificently grubby raincoat, was Falk's own stroke. The coat is his, bought in New York for a European trip years ago and stuffed away in a trunk until he fished it out to wear over the studio wardrobe's baggy brown suit. Falk worries like a mother hen over the coat's progressing disintegration, but he refuses to exchange it for a duplicate aged and soiled by the studio, clinging to the original like...
...each, they are driven the 1,400 miles to Chicago. They hide out on the illegal journey in the smugglers' cars, trucks and vans, sometimes stowing away in cardboard boxes or disappearing behind loads of watermelons and sacks of potatoes. One smuggler tucked his stowaways in his trunk, and supplied them with the needed air circulation by connecting fans in the trunk to the car's cigarette-lighter outlet...
...Anchorage, Alaska. By all conceivable point systems, Confessions of a Future Scotsman must win the Most Mature First Novel award for 1973. Reb is 48, and he has lived out quite an apprenticeship: he studied photography with Ansel Adams; he prospected (long and unsuccessfully); and he filled a trunk "with ten to fifteen books half written, quarter written, or firmly in mind." Surely he has earned the right to say a man is what he makes himself? Instead he says pretty much the opposite: that a man does not invent his identity; he is born with it, and his only...
...still unnamed Russian claimed diplomatic immunity and was turned over to the Soviet consulate; the American, who refused to say anything, was searched. In his pocket were found keys to a rented car. The agents tracked down the car, opened the trunk, and discovered a plastic garbage bag filled with secret documents dealing with...