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...pounded the bus and slashed its tires. As usual, local police had a gentleman's agreement with the Ku Klux Klan and stayed away. The bus limped five miles out of town, escorted by a caravan of pickup trucks, and stopped. Someone threw a fire bomb inside, and the crowd yelled, "Roast them! Burn them alive!" The Freedom Riders staggered off the smoking bus, and as one, Hank Thomas, hit the ground, reeling from fumes, a white man asked solicitously, "Are you O.K.?" And then took a baseball bat and swung at Thomas as hard as he could...
...characters in my book took on lives of their own," says Klein. "They were who they were." Still, insiders had fun guessing who in the Clinton caravan matched the characters Klein created. Henry's is the most elusive: a sort of mythical grandson of Martin Luther King Jr. crossed with former Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos. Nearly everyone else is an acute comic exaggeration of a familiar friend or foe of Bill...
...modified to blow off the doors and pin back the ears. It's a mix of black, white and Hispanic kids with one language: words like slicks and tranny, struts and squeeze. Someone says, "Let's go," and they pull out single file, sucking oil wells dry as they caravan toward the drag strip--a remote industrial stretch in the nothing-else-to-do town of Sylmar...
...Restrain yourself from going out and buying a Dodge Caravan after watching this movie; many of its scenes play like a Chrysler commercial (although Nissan also gets some exposure). The use of the familiar minivan as an instrument of terrorism turns out to be the most clever gag of the entire movie: nobody can find the infamous Jackal because he's driving the ubiquitous Caravan. Dodge Caravan: driven by soccer moms and international terrorists the world over...
...other big ones out there, wasn't exactly prepared for the IE 4-spurred traffic boost. Those Microsoft robots were downloading so much stuff for so many users that our computers ended up working overtime. It was like one of those hamburger places on the interstate when a caravan of tour buses pulls up in the middle of the night. Luckily, in the digital age, we never run out of fries...