Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with. One good reason is fast-footed Singer-Dancer Joel Grey, 40, veteran of Cabaret, from both the stage version and the movie, for which he is up for an Oscar. Now he is back I in the kind of cabaret he says he likes ; best. Lugging a trunk studded with I stickers from his past Broadway hits I around the stage at the Waldorf, Joel clowns with the audience about his 30 years in show business: "I wasn't born in a trunk, but I might as well have been...
Allegheny Airlines sounds like the name of a puddle-hopping carrier that serves a mountain range in Pennsylvania. But to the heads of the nation's major trunk lines, Allegheny appears as a fire-breathing imperialist swallowing up lesser lines and challenging the giants for airspace. Though it is still classed as a regional carrier, Allegheny in the past five years has grown to become the sixth largest airline in the U.S. in passenger traffic. Its revenues have nearly quadrupled to $265 million, and profits have risen to $6,000,000 last year from a loss...
...favored fellow Moslems-with the result that Uganda is suffering from a shortage of staples and skyrocketing prices. Soldiers make a practice of seizing private cars if drivers fail to produce operators' licenses on the spot. In more than one case, drivers have been arrested, locked in the trunk of their cars and never seen again...
...price of piracy has been relatively moderate, though still troublesome for an airline industry that has just begun to recover from its 1970-71 economic slump. Each big trunk line spent about $3,000,000 in 1972 to search passengers and carry-on luggage at the busiest airports. In addition, the lines are still out $2.5 million in ransom paid to skyjackers over the past twelve months; another $6.8 million has been recovered by federal authorities...
...John Gardner was busy turning monsters into men-and vice versa. His highly compressed story sang and winced and gibbered in its metaphysical chains, but it said a good deal about the dark origins and necessary delusions of society. The Sunlight Dialogues, by contrast, is an enormous trick circus trunk out of which the author keeps taking new literary treasures as if they were so many fake bananas. A philosophical disquisition upon religion and justice? Yes. A compassionate portrait of America in the uneasy '60s? Yes. A Faulknerian melodrama complete with intricate violence, small-town dynastic decay...