Word: bullhead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white plastic chair by the ice machine at the Highland Motel in Bullhead City, Arizona; hang around the parking lot at the El Rey Motel in Searchlight, Nevada; knock on doors at the Desert Inn Motel in Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told...
...Executive Floor), they said, or rented an Expense-o- Car, I could earn one-fortieth of a ticket to Kalamazoo. Then, just as I was booking cars I didn't need, they introduced segments. That meant that if I flew from Seattle to Vancouver via Chico, Oshkosh, Bullhead City and Purgatory (Colorado), I might clock up enough miles to make the same trip for free! Alternatively, if I flew to Casper, stayed in the most expensive hotel around, made some calls to Zaire at prime rates and rented a car to drive back to the airport, I might be able...
...grunge--slow churning, soiled with feedback and riff-laden--was Melvins (not "The Melvins," but simply "Melvins"). Melvins have been around since 1984. Along the way, the band has gone through many line-up changes and has released albums as mediocore as Ozma and as flat-out irritating as Bullhead. Obviously I'm not a fan. But in fairness to Melvins followers (who call themselves not "Melvins Army," but "The Melvins Army"), I don't really like Black Sabbath much either. However, I suspect that even a grunge music afficianado would find Melvins' new release, Houdini, inescapably trite and monotonous...
...Circus Circus's Colorado Belle. Another 5,500 rooms are being built. However, the frantic pace of construction has strained Laughlin's meager civic resources. The town suffers from shortages of housing, labor and water and must send high school students across the river to Bullhead City, Ariz., until its own school can be built...