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Being given an opinion column is like receiving your choice of vehicle and destination. Some of us choose low-slung sports cars, jump in and throw out the road maps. Quindlen chose a wood-paneled station wagon and was always, always, home before dark...
Belinda's exertions are not enough to save the show, or to keep theatrical institution Selsdon Mowbray on the wagon. Selsdon is the old dog who keeps a step ahead of the company, despite his intermittent deafness and propensity for napping. Ian Lithgow as Selsdon is yet another solid cast member as the troupe's elderly bane and balm. His Selsdon is undeniably aged, while carrying the confidence of endless theatrical experience on his stooped shoulders...
Jerome Brown had been driving without a license for two years, police say, before fate caught up with him. On May 28 he lost control of his girlfriend's 1989 station wagon while driving on a curvy road in Salisbury, Maryland. The skidding car hit a mailbox and a telephone pole before wrapping itself around a tree. Brown's girlfriend was killed instantly. His 14-year-old daughter died a few minutes later. Brown, 41, who was seriously injured, was allegedly driving drunk. He shouldn't have been on the road in any condition -- his license had been suspended...
Robert DeFeo is grim faced. The L.A. city fire department battalion chief would like to be saving lives, but instead is filling and refilling the coroner's station wagon on perpetual duty in the driveway of Northridge Meadows. DeFeo's crew is using buzz saws and jackhammers and Swiss search dogs, and so far he has turned up nine corpses, each crushed while in bed. The coroner's car leaves but always returns. The heroics occurred earlier, when residents pried neighbors from tight spaces or let them down from the roof with knotted fire hoses. The place is crawling with...
...mean, of course, the fact that it simply isn't plowed here. It seems that here they leave snow clearance to the melting action of the tire pressure of those unfortunates still driving on the treacherous by-ways, so that the streets look like Pompeii with its well-preserved wagon tracks...