Word: airstreams
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...angry at Endora for the way its inhabitants gape at his mother, and angry at Momma for being the thing that keeps him there. "Describing Endora is like dancing to no music," he laments, and so he breaks the tedium by waiting at the roadside for a caravan of Airstream campers which go by once a year. While Arnie squeals with pleasure at the sight of the campers, Gilbert dreamily says, "They're doing the right thing, just passing through...
...many trailers like Steve Badanes' 1956 silver Airstream anymore. Round and compact, it is one of those sleek design achievements of the 1950s that can make people nostalgic for tackiness. Badanes even travels with a plastic pink flamingo that he props outside the door wherever he parks. Most recently, the trailer -- and flamingo -- was parked in a wooded lot of a wealthy northern Virginia suburb while serving as home for Badanes, his itinerant opera-singing girlfriend Donna Walter, and their dog Floyd Bite (after Frank Lloyd Wright). But if a tacky trailer in an expensive Colonial suburb seems a little...
...When all of us went to architecture school, we thought being an architect had something to do with building," says Badanes, 43, while sitting with the others in the Jersey Devil office trailer parked just opposite his Airstream. "But most architects these days sit in their offices, design their places down to the last details and then hand the plans over to be built by someone else. Now I ask you, which approach do you think would make for better results? Do you sit in your office and look up stock answers in your books? Or do you move...
Eddie passes the buggy night grousing on his CB radio. He tells his listeners he is 28 years old, that he has a wife and a ten-month-old, that he is living in an Airstream trailer trying to "scrape it together to build a home" and that his tax statement showed he earned $4,200 last year. He indicts the state wildlife-and-fisheries commission for "selective enforcement," saying, "They don't cut the Cameron boys' nets off." Next he attacks his fellow shrimpers: "The Vietnamese stick together. Even the coloreds stick together. These coon asses, though...
...activated. A 24-volt nickel-cadmium emergency battery took over the plane's dead electrical system, providing enough juice to operate the radio and the key instruments in the cockpit. At the same time, a ram-air turbine dropped into position beneath the aircraft's belly. The airstream passing through the turbine generated enough pressure to activate the part of the hydraulic system that controls the flight spoilers, rudder and ailerons. This allowed Pearson, who happened to be an experienced glider pilot, to control the craft. The turbine also provided sufficient power to allow the pilot to release...