Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncle Phil greeted me with an enthusiastic handshake. No need to wait for baggage claim, I told him, I've got all I need right here on my back. I wedged my pack into the miniature trunk of his MR-2, and we began to roll. "Seventy-five cents" announced the lot attendant at the exit gate. Uncle Phil, handing over a five spot, smiled and said, "I think I can handle the stress." Of course he could, it's California...
...this what the world has always wanted in a tape dispenser? Hannibal comes in bright colors and oh-so-1998 translucent plastic. He sits on your desk looking intimidatingly like his eponym, the guy that almost conquered Rome, until you need tape and then presto: as you fold his trunk out, he induces a mid-boring-office-chore smile. Only one flaw: Who pays $60 for a tape dispenser...
...tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, according to Mittermeier, he would be better off. He tells me that the scariest sound he ever heard in the rain forest was the explosive crack of a dead trunk, followed by a rush of plummeting branches so loud it might have been a storm...
DIED. WINNIE JUDD, 93, who as a young secretary got off a train with two dead bodies stuffed in her luggage, triggering the sensational 1930s trial that dubbed her the "trunk murderess"; in Phoenix, Ariz. A sanity hearing spared her the death penalty and sent her packing to an Arizona hospital for three decades. Later judged sane, she went to prison, and was released...
Under the bold, sensitive direction of Jonathan Demme, Winfrey's Sethe is a creature as stern as she is strong--as much oak as flesh and blood. She moves with the heaviness of someone dragging large and fatal memories behind her like a full steamer trunk. She is, as the book puts it, "iron-eyed"; her gaze is an Old Testament judgment, her love a demon that can crush those it enfolds. The actress and the character share intelligence and passion, but in many particulars Sethe is the anti-Oprah. If Sethe were a talk-show host, she would stare...