Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least, it seems like I spent the entire spring vacation in a bus, car, train, cab or other vehicle of transportation. Of course, there are compensating advantages to mass transit--you meet some, ah, let us say, interesting people...
...half hour passed, a phone call to my friend's home yielded only a "I don't understand it, he left over an hour ago" from his father, and finally a car slowed down and glided over to the curb. Eagerly I bounded over, dragging my busted valise (memories of East Brunswick floating through my head), only to find the occupant of the car was not my friend but a paunchy, middle-aged, businessman-looking Oriental gentleman who asked, "Can I give you a lift somewhere? Is anyone coming to get you? I could take you wherever you want...
...right through the Milky Way"); from the times he got Sam Travolta to spin him around the living room ("Fly me, Daddy!"); from the spring he persuaded his father to help him build a "real" plane in the backyard (the wings and fuselage were made of wooden planks and car batteries powered the propellers)?Travolta has dreamed of soaring, of escaping...
...jewelry), the boys keep one another in line with some good brotherly barbs. Barry describes Robin's heavy gold rings with sardonic pleasure as "symbols of his immense wealth." When another outlandish income statement arrives, Maurice is likely to ask, "Does that mean I can keep me car...
...Robin remembers. "That was all they wanted." The boys were also suffering from the aftershocks of sudden success. They drank to excess, indulged in lots of speed, lived crazy and spent big. "There was a time," recalls Barry, "when I could walk out the front door and every car to the end of the street was mine, from the white Rolls at the front door to the Alpha at the corner." Maurice, who had five Rolls-Royces and six Aston Martins, practiced his own kind of inventory control by periodically pickling himself and trashing one of the cars. Says...