Word: biker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gadgets designed to enhance the cyclist's performance have also become top sellers. Japan's Cateye makes a $66 solar-powered magnetic device that tells a % biker the average speed and distance traveled. San Diego-based SkidLid Manufacturing produces a $52 helmet with a rear-view mirror. There are even accessories for babies: the $30 L'il Bell Shell helmet is designed for tots riding on the back of their parent's bike...
...rain stopped, the sun showed, a pistol spat and Lake Michigan fairly boiled with sleek, flashing bodies, the women in green caps, the men in orange. Out of the water and onto the bikes, they hurled themselves through encouraging throngs: "Lookin' good! Keep it up!" One biker wore a helmet that looked like a silver tear cut in half, something Mercury himself might have favored. Off the bikes, pulling on running shoes, they shattered records in tying laces. Then they tore off on foot, the sound of their hearts pounding in their ears. Scott Molina was first to finish...
...Phoenix, New Haven, Conn., Boston, Cleveland, Omaha and Charlotte, N.C. Police in the East Village section of Manhattan, backed by a helicopter, an armored van and dogs, used sledgehammers to break into a building that served as a regional headquarters. Among the six Angels they arrested was a burly biker named Sandy Alexander, the reputed head of the national organization, who was captured when he clambered down a fire escape as an audience of 150 looked...
With matters this bad, the only direction in which a real plot can go is down--and this Gillette's does rapidly. Mickey's goods get ripped off, and Bobby is nailed to the floor by an angry biker. Disgusted by the venality of human beings in the city (and without enough money to pay the rent), Bobby and Mickey decide to set up housekeeping in the desert and get back to nature. The traditional home of the American Man of the West...
...obvious that the set deserves some telegraph lines in the background. It seems as though the play was plotted first, with characters added as an afterthought. A case in point: Cherry Jones's first appearance as Jody Bobby's blue denim romantic obsession is very funny she's a biker's moll with a nuclear war phobia and a vearning for a little TECC. when sheappears next, she has undergone a complete metamore phosis from a lizzy devil-may-care funster to a kind but money-grubbing waitress. Thematically, Bobby offer clear expression of the leveling power of social intercourse...