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...Room of the White House, which has managed to maintain its dignity through the drying laundry of the John Adams family, the gallons of lemonade poured by the abstemious Lucy Hayes and the baleful exit of Richard Nixon, witnessed another extraordinary event last week in the long and colorful caravan of presidential history...
Only one line stands out. As Russell leads a caravan of 250 used cars across the California desert, he realizes that he'll never make his deadline if he sticks to the speed limit. Turning and speaking through a megaphone to the high-school students driving his pack of cars, he prepares the kids for a history lesson. "This is how we used to drive," he yells, "at 75 miles per hour...
...elephantine expansion of their Saturday Night Live routine, expends that energy on simple aggression. Can't Stop the Music, which charts the fabled rise of the Village People, turns it into misdirected motion. Only Roadie powers itself like an eight-wheeled, diesel-fueled rock-'n'-roll caravan...
...wearing and another where she got her arm's length of bracelets. McGraw even consents to posing for a photograph with a man who "wants to drive his wife nuts." She says she doesn't enjoy it but realizes its part of the job. A real trooper. But the caravan is rolling and she enters the waiting van for the next appointment...
Following the production unit's caravan, Arlen discovers a secret New Jersey of suburban houses ideally suited for commercial filming. The Garden State also boasts wide-open spaces, including a rodeo grounds much used by Madison Avenue. The Jersey-born owner incongruously sports a Rocky Mountain accent and wears jeans, boots, a Western hat and a shiny red windbreaker advertising Winston cigarettes...