Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impoverished to replace them. More and more frequent is the sight of school buses stopping at creaking wooden bridges to let children walk across, then following behind to pick them up on the other side. In many cases, even this is risky for the driver of an empty bus. "We have a lot of ten-ton buses going across a three-ton bridge," says Clovis Fraser, a Georgia transportation official...
...sight of the 'Action News' TV van." And she hopes the neighbors will take it as a sign of her modern outlook. Sabrina, 20, has a small part in a regional production of Oklahoma! Edwin, the man she lives with, is 43 and drives a bus for retarded adults whom he entertains with music tapes and disc-jockey patter...
...enthusiasms, her fennel toothpaste and herbal deodorant, leave Edwin amazed and uneasy. Self-knowledge comes hard. He dimly recalls his knockabout past and realizes that he has not been an adventurer but "has gone through life rather blindly, without much pain or sense of loss." Only on his bus is he in complete control, jolting his handicapped audience with Jim Morrison's Light My Fire, "a song that was so long it carried them from the feed mill on one side of town to the rendering plant on the other." When Sabrina suggests marriage and adds that she will...
...injected a few droll jokes: an Iran Air airport bus disgorges three terrorists and some American hostages; a nurse takes her patient's temperature with a long oil dip stick. With its throwaway references to E.T., Ronald Reagan, TV anchormen and movies that have not even been released yet, Airplane II might deserve a place in a time capsule of pop culture circa 1982. Pia Zadora is already in there waiting...
...Murphy away with one punch. But the brawl ends in an obviously fixed draw, and a suspicion that everything else is equally rigged begins to nag. The uncaring mind begins to wander questioningly toward many a dubious plot point. Where did the bad guys get hold of a city bus for a getaway? And what good do they think the clumsy thing is going to do them anyway? There can be no doubts on one matter, however: as the psychopath who causes all the trouble, James Remar gives the year's scariest performance...