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Back at Gore Hall I began unpacking my trunk--yes, trunk--and becoming acquainted with my three roommates. Being a waiter in the Gore Dining Hall, I was soon to know everyone in the building. Not until the middle of my senior year would I be able financially to give up waiting on tables...
...Gertrude Stein, almost leaden in its pictorial ineloquence, marked the start of this change, and the pink stony torsos of Two Nudes, 1906, delineate the period's end. In between lay some magnificent paintings, such as the Seated Female Nude with Crossed Legs, 1906, whose solidities of thigh, trunk and breasts anticipate the swollen torsos of Picasso's "classical" women 15 years later. It was one more element in the predictions, recapitulations and variations of theme that composed the tissue of Picasso's imagination...
...Supreme Court's pendulum decisions on criminal justice have found Hook unchanged; he has long advocated the rights of the victim: "When we read that a man whose speeding car had been stopped by a motorcycle policeman, who without a search warrant forced him to open his trunk that contained ... corpses ... walks out of court scot-free because the evidence is ruled inadmissible-we can only conclude that...
Rick wanted to sleep. Sammy gave him the backseat, turned the radio on low and wrote a letter to a guy he met in Chicago. It was a funny letter but he did not have the guy's address. He stuffed the letter in the cooler in the trunk. A wet loaf of bread had green measles. One can of apple juice still bobbed in the melting...
...simile take over in a description of a dying German truck driver, "hiccuping great gouts of cherry-pink foam . . . to the accompaniment of a sound like a slush pump." Still later, Mowat sees with surreal detachment the upper body of a man falling slowly backward while his legs and trunk remain standing...