Word: crackup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this time of cosmic crackup, a twelve-year-old girl named Emily is inexplicably thrust upon the narrator, as if the child represented one last responsibility in the old-fashioned sense of the word. Under the extreme pressures put upon her, the girl swiftly and somewhat surrealistically goes through many of the phases and feelings of a woman's life in a relatively short period. The narrative, so far as there is one, describes Emily's odd, intense relationships with her new guardian, with her lover Gerald (a natural leader who founds a commune), and Hugo...
...Many drivers of that era, folklore has it, learned their trade outrunning "revenooers" on mountainous "white-lightnin' trails," screeching through 180° "bootleg turns" without spilling a drop of moonshine. By the time of Papa Petty's retirement in 1962−induced by a nasty 150-m.p.h. crackup that left him with a limp−the circuit was slightly more respectable and much more lucrative. Today, attracting more than 1,500,000 spectators a year to modern high-banked tracks, drivers pad their earnings by turning their cars into billboards on wheels. This year Richard Petty reaped...
...Crackup. Scott's antics exasperated him, once to the point where he banished him from Villa America for three weeks for tossing gold-flecked Venetian wine glasses over the garden wall at a dinner party. When Scott began ostentatiously "studying" the Murphys for his fiction, Sara wrote him: "If you can't take friends largely, and without suspicion, then they are not friends at all. The ability to know what another person feels in a given situation will make-or ruin-lives." But Gerald loved Scott at his best and "the region where his gift came from-when...