Word: bike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just a 15-minute bike ride from Oak Bluffs lies Vineyard Haven. This somewhat quiet town is the home of many excellent beds and breakfast which can be enjoyed off-season for less than 50 dollars a night...
Anyone with a bicycle (which can be rented cheaply in all of the towns) and a good pair of legs can bicycle the length of the island along wooded roads and bike paths. The island's crowning glory is a sunset seen from the cliffs at Gay Head over a plateful of fried clams...
Daniel Day-Lewis wouldn't mind getting out right now, we guess, on a bike that takes him to no particular place at all. Where he can observe without being stared at, converse without being quoted. Where a consummate actor does not have to act. Where he can just...
...each of the main characters embodies at least one pressing "issue." Vicki (Janeane Garofalo) works at the Gap and is scared that she has AIDS. Sammy is gay and about to come out to his mom. Troy (Ethan Hawke) is in an alternative band called Hey, That's My Bike. Michael is an ambivalent corporate climber. Leleina looks for a job at a fast-food restaurant after losing her internship at a moronic TV show. All the characters seem to have divorced parents and a deep emotional attachment to some aspect of pop culture...
...Kerrigan wanted to hit the ice jumping. But Evy insisted on caution because of scar tissue: "We've had to push it, but we couldn't push it to the point of reinjury because then you're through." So there were sessions of swimming and weight lifting. And the bike. "I have to use the bike to loosen up, and I hate it," says Kerrigan, 24. The day she first pulled off a triple toe loop, says Mary with a sigh, "was . . . just . . . wonderful." The rest of the triples and spins followed, and there will be no changes...