Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's about it except for one item--if you're into dancing, a fine opportunity for it presents itself this Thursday when none other than Archie Bell & the Drells headline a dance concert at the Boston Arena with Trammps and Brass Construction, August...
...COMPARATIVELY EASY to hot wire an automobile, if you have the necessary equipment and a modicum of courage, or need, or the correct disdain for societal conventions, as it were. Bell had all that, plus the aching of an adolescent hand for a shift in his fingers, a lever with which to move the world...
...uncle had the vehicle: a 1952 Chevy pick-up bought run-to-death for $180 in 1956 when Bell's uncle received his Korean bonus. The previous owner had been a rural mailman famed for his flying delivery service, driving his 85-mile route in under two hours over bad West Virginia roads, slinging packages and newspapers at rotting front steps in the nascent mountain morning, steering with his knee, one hand on the shift, one slinging, and two wheels off the ground. The radio, Hank Williams or Lefty Frizzell, turned all the way up: "Hunny jes LOW me nother...
...Bell ignored this gory history as he crawled over a cement driveway to the truck which sat under his uncle's bedroom window. He raised the hood carefully, swearing at the rusty hinges which sang painful cat songs as he propped it up. A light snapped on in the house. Jesus, thought Bell, and groped for the distributor cap, fastening his alligator clip to it and grounding the other clip to the engine block. He slammed the hood and jumped in, put a cautious foot on the gas, and felt the engine pull itself to life. He began to back...
...Bell, surprised, picked glass and grass from his hair and stared curiously for a moment. Then he burst into laughter, hugging his knees and rocking, out of control in the dewy September night...