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  • I took this picture a few years back at a relatively large, modestly well-known European museum that shares its name with a plastic car-window accessory that was popular in the 70s and 80s.

    Are You a Renaissance Bubba? 2009

  • When I got into my car this morning, I looked at the small version of the Shepard Fairey poster that I have stuck on my car-window, the one that says “Yes We Did,” and I started thinking about removing it.

    Yeah. This one’s ours « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Compare them to the carousel lilt of Big Love's opening credits, set to the ardent melancholy of the Beach Boys '"God Only Knows," or the scissory, sidelong car-window views of the New York to Jersey drive in The Sopranos, and John's have no subtextual tension or dynamic undertow.

    Sand Crabs: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • It can be your living room window, bathroom window, car-window or office view.

    Eileen Gittins: Crowdsourcing Content and Demand: Andrew Sullivan's "View From Your Window" Book 2009

  • For streak-free windows, consider using microfiber cloths and a car-window solution.

    It's Not Just a Car Wax ... 2008

  • CNN reports on the growing "problem" of people catching glimpses of dirty DVDs screening in other people's cars, and then getting angry because their snoopy peeking through someone else's car-window has exposed them to pr0n.

    Boing Boing: March 7, 2004 - March 13, 2004 Archives 2004

  • The camera swiveled to examine me as a speaker mounted at car-window height crackled to life.

    Spin 2005

  • Red Envelope offers a combination car-window breaker and seat - belt cutter so you can let someone you love know you're thinking about them drowning in their car.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2003 2003

  • Timmy began to bark fiercely, and tried to leap through the closed car-window.

    Five Get Into A Fix Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1958

  • It was at the railroad station, to which his duties called him, that I said to Arthur good-by; and there, as the train pulled out, through the car-window I caught a glimpse of two moist eyes looking after the departing train.

    A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

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