Word: biked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actually riding, he was daydreaming-or nightdreaming-about it. Unlike the healthy cyclist, a person with the motorcycle syndrome literally needs his machine; without it, he has a sense of "something missing" and an "acute awareness of inadequacy." As one patient told Nicholi: "If I got rid of the bike, there would be nothing but me, and that's not enough...
...disputes the value of these versatile gadgets to people who live and work in remote, roadless areasfarmers, ranchers, Eskimos, trappers, rural doctors and utility repair crews. To other users, the raffish vehicles offer instant fun at relatively little cost: $200 for the smallest trail bike, $1,000 for an average snowmobile, $1,200 for a dune buggy...
...young girl who asked him why he was considered the "greatest World Teacher." He likes to avoid the subject-not to deny, but, as in all his teaching, to try to communicate that certainly in which affirmation and denial dissolve. It was always interesting to hop onto my bike and ride a prover??ial stone's throw from the Theosophical estate to Krishnamurti's estate...
...knows where it will all end. In Southern California, four-year-old Derek Bland gives expert demonstrations on his 50-cc. Honda. Wearing his silver crash helmet and silver boots, he takes off down his driveway at 12 m.p.h., leans, sticks out a foot expertly to whip his bike around and roars back to his starting point. "I'm too good at this," he says. "You should see me go over a jump. I can do wheelies too." Derek started out on a mini-minibike called the Indian, but quickly became bored. For one thing, it could...
...what never existed; nonetheless Director Sidney Furie seems to be attempting an existential comedy. Local color is dabbed in by the numbers. Maw (Lucille Benson) is comic-strip Steinbeck; Paw (Noah Beery Jr.) sells portable potties which he describes as p.p.s. Fauss is constantly taking ludicrous spills on his bike. Halsy is forever scratching himself, belching, boozing, caroming off lesbians-all the while covering past and future with a threadbare carpet of lies. Sometimes he talks like a daylight cowboy, sometimes like an Okie Voltaire ("Once, it's cool . . . twice, it's queer...