Word: bike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prudent citizens sign up for ice-climbing lessons and for bicycle tours across China. Your neighbor's teen-ager hang-glides. It is hardly worth mentioning when a 50-year-old man or woman runs a marathon, although the triathlon, which may consist of a long swim, a bike race and a complete running marathon on the same day, still raises a few eyebrows...
...when he was two, and until quite recently no one would hire him for anything. But what really puts fire into his basset-hound brown eyes is not the chance for big money or even the enthusiastic applause he receives every night in Brighton Beach Memoirs. It is a bike he parks backstage at the Alvin Theater...
...call this lean, gray machine a bike is a bit like calling a panther "pussy" or the Queen "Liz." It cost $700, has 15 speeds, with wires in odd places, and it floats on balloon tires that would make an ascent up Everest seem like a jaunt through Central Park. "You can go off the curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz...
Then, of course, there is always the bike, that Pegasus of the Potholes. It means a lot, and after extolling its virtues to one reporter, he went home and sadly told his mother, "He didn't understand about the bike...
...speeder-bike chases through the redwoods were an example. To give the illusion of speed, a cameraman walked through a forest near Crescent City, Calif, while the camera strapped to his chest ran film at one-thirtieth its normal speed. When that film was put into a projector at regular speed, the cameraman's stroll became a hair-raising 150-m.p.h. race between the experienced storm troopers and the amateur rebels...