Word: minivanning
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...there was no time to savor the moment. If ever the immigrants were in danger of being captured, this was the time, with the U.S. Border Patrol on the prowl. The Chinese were lucky that night. A minivan with darkened windows was waiting for them, with a Chinese driver. The snakeheads' far-flung networks had delivered. The driver drove them through the night to a large city, which Chen discovered was Houston, though he had only the vaguest idea of U.S. geography. All he had was the telephone number of a distant cousin in someplace called Flushing...
They found Dalrymple and Elian clinging to each other. "No, no no!" Elian screamed. They gave him to Betty Mills, an eight-year INS veteran who spoke to Elian in Spanish as she covered him with a blanket and raced out to a waiting white minivan. As the pepper spray wafted outside the house, bystanders could hear the agents shouting the code meaning that they had Elian in their possession: "Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!" Mills told Elian that it was O.K., that he was going to see his "papa" and take his first ever airplane ride--not, she kept promising...
...King wrote "Bullet" while recuperating from a near-fatal accident last June, when he was walking on a country road near his summer home in Lovell, Maine, and was hit by a minivan. In December King also participated in a fund-raising test of the same "digital rights management" technology that is supposed to copy-protect downloaded files. Last year he pushed the limits of other publishing outlets, releasing a three-story collection called "Blood and Smoke" exclusively in audio book format. In a statement about his new download, King said, "I'm curious to see what sort of response...
Those with long memories will recall that George W. Bush spent the better part of last year promising that he would be the one to restore honor and dignity to the office, so help him God. And he was the sunny conservative who was flirting with all those minivan moms and flinging open the G.O.P. primaries so that moderate voters could help him fend off threats from Steve Forbes and the rest of the pack. So how is it that the candidate whose stake as the front runner was based on his war chest, his invincibility and his proven crossover...
Roger Corman, B-movie king: "Do what we do. The actors drive to the location in an inconspicuous car, followed by a minivan. As the camera photographs them from the back of the minivan, the actors stroll casually to their positions and play the scene, then stroll back to their car. Everyone drives away...