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...especially fast in traffic-choked metropolitan areas from San Francisco to Boston. But many drivers find the baby on board message annoying, and entrepreneurs with a sarcastic sense of humor have marketed alternative signs. Among the new offerings: nobody on board, child carries no cash and EX-WIFE IN TRUNK...
...attacked by a playmate wielding a toy rake. The child retaliates with a toy hoe, hacking his assailant to death. Nearly a half-century later, while seeing his son off to summer camp, the killer, grown to uneasy manhood, is accidentally hit with the lid of a taxi trunk; he bleeds profusely, and for a few minutes believes he is dying. These ) events merge in his mind with TV-news footage of prison violence in Peru: guards shooting inmates who are in the midst of stabbing one another. All these images commingle with recollections of passive, exhibitionistic childhood sex. That...
...threw the stuff in the trunk and hooked the glove over the handle of the bat and tucked the cleats in the duffel bag and got in the car, got on the road to Boston...
...title role, Kate Nelligan unfortunately does nothing to diminish Gage's beatific image of Eleni. Shot through a bright yellow screen, Nelligan positively glows with the radiance of the blessed. In one scene, she has to lug a huge trunk full of rare American goodies up the hill next to her house, drawing a clear analogy between the soon-to-be betrayed Eleni and the martyred Christ making his ascent up Calgary Hill. As she reaches the top, she announces to Nicholas, God and anyone else within hearing, "Nicolai Gatzuiannus, your father is alive!" with all the verbal presence...
...move to preserve the tree's wood came as an unpleasant shock to Matthew L. Ranen '89 and Nathan B. Tropp '89, who yesterday afternoon had made considerable progress rolling part of the trunk back to their Wigglesworth suite. "It would have made a great table," Ranen said...