Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school band and interminable shots of students horsing around for the camera. Others strive for more professionalism, with rock songs on the sound track and TV news-style interviews. This year's video for Eastwood High School in Pemberville, Ohio, opens with an old woman rummaging through a trunk in her dusty attic. Inside she finds a forgotten videocassette, which she pops into a VCR. The tape, of course, turns out to be Eastwood High's 1986-87 video...
When Peter Sellars '80 was an Adams House sophomore he asked Adams House master Richard Kiely for permission to clean up a trunk room in the basement. Kiely gave the now prominent director free reign and Sellars redid the room. Thus Harvard's first basement theater, called "Explosives B" after an explosives factory sign that Sellars had found, opened...
...introduced last year by Etak, a Menlo Park, Calif., company, is an electronic road map that calculates position by means of dead reckoning. Data from a solid-state compass installed in the vehicle's roof and from sensors mounted on its wheels are processed by a computer in the trunk and displayed on a dashboard screen. The car's position is represented as a fixed triangle; the map, showing a web of streets and avenues, scrolls down as the car moves forward and rotates sideways when it turns...
Zanio, who works as a carpenter, took a hatchet from her car trunk and started to smash the snowwoman, but fled when Barnett rushed out of his house. "We had her arrested to let people know they can't go hacking things down," says Barnett. Last week Zanio was charged with disorderly conduct; she could face a $200 fine...
They will pack their entire family into the trunk of a smuggler's car and ride for several hours until they reach Los Angeles. They will spend hundreds of dollars for a safe passage just to San Diego. And many will die in the process...