Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME. It is, of course, impossible to assay completely any region of the nation. The South is particularly complex and contradictory, a mix of modern and ancient, traditional and futuristic. East Texas, for example, is as Deep South in feeling as Savannah, Ga.; West Texas is truly western. Miami Beach is as much a suburb of New York?or Havana?as a Florida city. Yet there is much that knits this land and holds it together, with its own special character and flavor and language. If the South cannot be totally explored, it can at least be seen as reality...
Visit a white public park, beach or swimming pool...
...fixed as the firmament on high. In Knoxville, Tenn., fans strip the supermarkets of their favorite fruit: orange is a school color, a half-time snack and something to throw at offending referees. When 60,000 University of Florida loyalists gather for a game, the world's largest beach party is under way, fueled by whisky and Gatorade. At the University of Georgia, wardrobes are planned for the slow stroll to seats behind the fabled hedges. Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, home of Louisiana State University, is a saucer-shaped bowl that amplifies every sound and helps screaming boosters...
North Carolina's addiction to dirt tracks is spreading. To avoid bankruptcy, the Myrtle Beach, S.C., raceway recently tore up its asphalt and went back to dirt; promoters up in Columbia are debating a similar move. After cutting the number of dirt tracks on its circuit to six, NASCAR now wants to add new ones...
...what does the modern man do when unable to gratify himself through children or his over-urbanized wife or even a paid vacation from an uncreative job? He masturbates. Which, when Veronique hunts for him at the beach one day, she finds him doing...