Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young America: What do you want to be when you grow up? How about being a teacher [June 16]? After a B.S., an M.S. and 20 years' experience, you can make $18,000 a year, teach five classes a day, grade homework for 150 students at night, do bus and early-morning duty and attend extracurricular events after school. Plus you get to read, at least once a month, articles telling you how incompetent you are and what a lousy job you are doing...
...movie that knows how to overdo it-with speed, elegance, wall-to-wall raunch and a flaky, sidewise wit. Meat Loaf plays Travis W. Redfish, a north Texas naif with the soul of Candide and the hands of an expert mechanic. He hooks up as the "roadie" (bus driver and equipment manager) for a sleazy rock entrepreneur and falls immediately in love with Lola Bouilliabase (Kaki Hunter), a snaggletoothed, anorectic groupie whose mission in life is to sleep with Alice Cooper. "Isn't she one of Charlie's Angels?" asks Travis. Says Lola: "I can't believe...
...resentment that Muscovites display toward the thousands of Third World exchange students who attend Patrice Lumumba Friendship of Peoples University. Those foreigners are unpopular because they have access to hard-currency stores, and because of their comparatively generous government stipends and their notoriety as black marketeers. On a bus or a metro car, a dark-skinned foreigner will often hear someone behind him muttering "Chernomazy" (literally blackface, but every bit as insulting as "nigger...
Just getting aloft presents its challenges. Planes regularly land and take off not just hours but even days late. One foreign traveler waited in a Moscow airport for 17 hours before his flight to Tbilisi was announced. His airport bus proceeded to roll along the tarmac and stop at three different planes; at each one the ground hostess would yell out: "Is this the plane to Tbilisi?" The bus finally came to the fourth-and right-plane. There was only one problem: no pilot. The traveler finally abandoned the effort at 3 a.m., luggage unclaimed and Tbilisi unvisited...
...Jordan was reared straitened middle-class circumstances. His father was a postal supervisor, his mother a caterer; her business is now operated by one of Jordan's two brothers. Though Jordan never lived in actual poverty, he once observed: "I rode in the back of the bus, I sat upstairs in the theater, I sat upstairs in the courtroom." After earning a bachelor's degree in political science at DePauw University ('57) and a law degree from Howard University ('60), Jordan set out to do his best to end those injustices...