Word: backseats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made $4000 after my sophomore year, so I just bought a Fly America plane ticket, which let me visit something like 12 cities," he says. "I would rent cars and sleep in the backseat...
...mask around the face during guerrilla actions, are not yet widely attempted Stateside. But Ruether suggests that heavy sales of the scarves, mostly made in Jordan, Syria and the West Bank, could be a small economic boon to the Palestinians. Such social considerations still take a backseat to fashion. "Hey," says Gene Bursage, 19, of Brooklyn, who has worn his scarf every day, and in every temperature, since he bought it last November. "It's a scarf, that's what it is, that's all it is. What did you say it was called again...
...always believed in Gary. I never stopped believing in him." But a day later, when a raunchy taunt or two soured the comeback, the portrait of the political wife was, in a candid moment, etched in pain. As she rode through a storm of gray sleet in the backseat of a borrowed van, Lee Hart's eyes welled with tears. "I don't want Gary to be President -- that's his wish," she confessed. "But I don't want to be in the way. I couldn't live with that...
...joke. The Soviet police were told to give tickets to speeders, no matter who they were. One day Gorbachev is late leaving home for the Kremlin, and he hurries to his car and tells the driver that he will drive to save time. So the driver sits in the backseat and Gorbachev takes off lickety-split down the road and passes two cops on the side. One of the officers gives chase but in a short time returns to his partner, who asks if he gave him a ticket. 'No,' the cop answers. 'Well, who in the world...
...side door of our mental tree house, a pause, a break--and then the moonface puts his hand on the front door passenger side handle and the realization hits me that this man is the governor of California, this man is Ronald Reagan, and I turn slowly towards the backseat, toward the agony of truth, for I know this implausibility can only come from within, that the exterior world however cruel could never dream such an exquisite torture, but as I look I see my horror mirrored in the twisted gaze of Ginsburg #1, stiff body and loose jaws quivering...