Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sells freeze-dried serpents through the mail and, when not firing people for a living, runs eight 900-number phone lines through which he hopes to minister to American Dreams. His own dream is of becoming "a major player in the turtle trade." Not far away, as Mike Bryan tells us in Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledge (Knopf; 349 pages; $25), is Phil ("Shorty") Kendrick, a former egg deliverer who, having seen Jesus, is planning a 450-ft. model of Noah's ark. So far his kingdom extends mostly to a 14-year-old camel he drags around...
...want to see the true America, Mike Bryan contends--and often proves --you have to bypass the blue highways and quaint backroads and hit the Interstate. This he does with the engagingly curious open-mindedness of a true odologist, riding in state-patrol cruisers equipped with "three different sirens--wail, yelp and hi-lo"--and cross-examining moteliers and roadside philosophers at places like the Wes-T-Go Truck Stop outside Abilene, Texas, not so far from where Lee Johnson shows off a half-million-dollar motor coach that does 1,500 miles to a tank...
...over-filled garage to host a dance party complete with pulsing music and flashing lights. In Chris Burden's Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests an overzealous collector of model train sets and holiday porcelain villages from mail-order catalogs. Likewise, Bryan Crockett's gigantic balloon explosion could only have been made by a slightly obsessive character, perhaps an eccentric clown bored with his mastery of simple balloon wiener dogs and poodles...
...final day of competition was highlighted by the Crimson's 400 freestyle relay team of freshman Mike Kiedel, sophomore Alex Kurmakov, senior Bryan Butts and junior Eric Matuszak. In a record-setting performance, the quartet set a school, Eastern and Denunzio Pool record with a time...
Students have the benefit of working with a professional set artist, costume designer, band conductor and lighting manager (who is rumored, Grandy says, to have managed lights for both Prince and Bryan Adams concerts), not to mention a director and choreographer who danced together on Broadway in "A Chorus Line...