Word: backseat
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...backseat of a Mercedes is piled with bags of chicken feed. A jogger is startled when Canada geese suddenly lift off from a soybean field. A sculptor thumbs through Hoard's Dairyman near the life-size statue of a Holstein, while down at Rose & Chubby's Luncheonette, commuters discuss optional features available on new eight-row corn pickers...
When professors' salaries are determined, marketplace realities take a distant backseat to a professor's age and experience in the Harvard system. But when the Corporation kicks off the annual process of setting administrative salaries each fall, it looks primarily to two very traditional factors: supply and demand...
...slapstick plot. At first encounter, the characters appear to have been made of pig bladders, but the deeper their predicaments, the more convincing they become. The romance between Bernice and Ernie, a Hornbeck layabout, has the ring of lowlife truth. Says a sincere Ernie after a night of backseat love and a bottle of Rock 'n' Rye: "I'm sure trying to figure out a way to tell you what I want to without hurting your feelings by talking dirty, but it ain't easy...
...laxwomen were relegated to a small, inconspicuous column beneath a great picture of men's lacrosse. Tim Pendergast and a lengthy tale of co-captain comments. "I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia" would rather be given due respect and placement. Too often women's sports must take the backseat when it comes to media coverage. Granted Tim Pendergast has nice legs, but Francesca DenHartog has better states. The women are seeded fifth in the nation while the men's lacrosse is not even breaking even. Don't tell me that women's sports are "just not spectator sports" when...
...things--so it comes as no surprise when Jill, under pressure from teachers and parents to drop "that boy," works herself up into a rage after he sneaks into one of her drama rehearsals. Only after he kidnaps the girl and her friend, holding them at gunpoint in the backseat of the "rat" while his friend careens around Trenton, does their relationship return to normal. It falters again when he's expelled from St. Catherine's picks up the next fall when Jill, feeling out of it at Sarah Lawrence, visits him in Miami. Yes, she loses her virginity...