Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police helicopter churns overhead, searchlight sweeping over the melee below. For a mile east and a mile west, six lanes of traffic move in caravan, a rolling cacophony of full-blast stereos rising above a cross-lane exchange of insults, come-ons and general greetings. Along the sidewalk-the famous chocolate terrazzo sidewalk embedded with bronze-edged stars framing the names of superstars-gang members defiantly stake out their turf. There are police on horseback, on motorcycles, on foot, in plainclothes. Knots of bewildered tourists, looking for Tinseltown, realize they have wandered into a weekend war zone...
Cruisers prefer to travel in groups, and to proceed very, very slowly. Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles was the city's prime caravan route until the police began shutting the street on weekends. The cruisers moved to Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley. It was closed. They moved on, to Hollywood Boulevard...
...Pfund have become more prevalent since the onset of the baseball strike--he's received many inquiries from groups hundreds of miles away, who travel en masse to Toledo. About 15 people from the metropolitan Detroit area, who consider themselves "baseball fanatics," were on hand Saturday, having travelled via caravan to the gravel lot--free parking--outside the stadium...
Gently rolling, woodsy Dunn, Wis. (pop. 4,965), could never pass for Shangrila. But the karma was fabulous there last week, thanks to a visit by the Dalai Lama, 46, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists. Some 1,500 pilgrims arrived in a caravan of black-and-yellow school buses at the town's 13-acre Deer Park Buddhist Center. The occasion: the spectacular Kalachakra, the wheel-of-time ceremony that all but guarantees participants nirvana. Never before performed in the West, the Kalachakra has been given only six other times by the present Dalai Lama...
Mounted on a white steed, Bridegroom Mohammed rode at dawn to the portal of Salama's palace. He was preceded by a caravan of 20 camels laden with trunks of diamonds, emeralds and rubies. If these gifts seemed mere baubles to the bride, it was because her father Sheik Hamdan had given her an entire town with three skyrise apartment buildings, a luxury hotel and 55 shops and boutiques...