Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th Century largely has been a confirmation of Nietzsche's most horrible fears. Modern man is increasingly incapable of conceiving of any end higher than mere life, or at least mere life with a second car. The sacrifices of old, committed in the name of love of God, or of nation, or of woman, are no longer understandable...
...truck was sent to pull the car out of the hole, Walsh added. "It didn't fully engulf the vehicle. Only the front part fell in," he said...
...neighborhoods is $80,000, far above what her husband Melvin, a package loader with United Parcel Service, could swing on a salary of just under $30,000. Moreover, Junius Street was a wasteland of vandalized buildings and rubble-strewn vacant lots, not even a place "that I wanted my car to break down in," says Jones, 48. Yet in August 1984 the Joneses and their two children moved from a nearby public-housing project into a spanking-new two-bedroom house, complete with front and back yards. The house, part of a new development of more than...
...brightest automobiles. People say he has a genius for sailing, but it may be that he has just applied his genius to sailing and is literally driving himself. "At a certain level, does it make much difference?" Conner asks. "Mario Andretti or A.J. Foyt? Or is it the car?" One of the shapeless peaked caps he rotates in endless supply bears the emblem of Calumet Farm. If Kentucky had bred Conner, would he have trained horses? Alydar was a Calumet colt the year Affirmed beat him by an inch in all of the Triple Crown races. Romantics tended to credit...
...with Jim Kalvin, a marina owner, Michael Isabella, an embroidery manufacturer, and Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops to trumpets, in the company of Mark Branson, a high school music teacher, Mark Fessenden, a florist, and Glen Harcus, a racing-car manufacturer. On bass is Dick Burchell, a salesman, and on piano is Dan Stefanko, a music teacher. The vocalist is Dante Lupi, from Astoria, in Queens, N.Y. -- "I went to school with Tony Bennett's cousin" -- the manager < of a condominium project. In all, A String of Pearls...