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...glaring personal problems should have alerted his superiors: on a $50,000 salary, he supported a wife and eight children, including a deaf son, and maintained a Los Angeles bungalow and an eleven-acre farm in San Diego County. Once suspended for selling Amway household goods out of the trunk of a Government car, Miller was regarded by colleagues as a harmless, pathetic buffoon...
...favorite soap-opera actress. Then, early last year, their lives went awry. The couple were on the verge of divorcing, and Vigoreaux was planning to marry a younger woman. On Jan. 17 his charred body, which showed at least eleven stiletto-type stab wounds, was discovered stuffed in the trunk of his red Mercedes-Benz on the outskirts of San Juan...
...virgin. Chicago Artist Luis Jimenez's pastel study for his sculpture The American Dream shows a car, as Gerald Silk describes it in the museum publication, "ravishing a voluptuous nude female; breasts rhyme visually with hubcaps and headlights, hair with fenders, belly and buttocks with hood and trunk." Edward Kienholz's sculpture Back Seat Dodge '38 shows a truncated car, its front seat removed. In the back, a chicken-wire man and plaster woman are wrapped in beer bottles and each other. The license plate reads C692, EVERYWHERE...
...after giving himself up to dissipation and one last, long bout with the hard-rock life. The book concludes with a sermon compiled from various of Richard's exhortations: "[God] made Adam and Eve. Not Adam and Steve." And: "Take that Bible out of your trunk, and get up from those soap operas! Stop trying to watch Search for Tomorrow and search your Bible." Richard may not be making rock 'n' roll any more, but it's obvious the fire has not burned...
...trussed her and then remembered his cameras were in the trunk of his car. He went for the equipment, returned to the maze of apartments all looking alike and realized he did not know her floor, much less her apartment number. He left and for months avoided the area...