Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic background of CBers is changing rapidly. Once populated mostly by truckers and blue-collar hobbyists, CB land is attracting growing numbers of businessmen and middle-class families who use the sets for safety and information. CB is also a "bodacious" (in CB lingo, super, fantastic) way of relieving freeway tedium-so much so that truckers' use of amphetamines has declined drastically in recent years. Ordinary drivers tend to be as evangelistic about the medium as oldtime gear jammers. "When I'm on the road these days," says New York Businessman Lawrence LeKashman, "I'd sooner leave...
Sitting here at my table in my 200-year-old cottage, no freeway noise, my doors unlocked, a crackling fire to warm by. gazing at the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, which fill my windows-a view broken only by an occasional farmhouse-I read your article about Americans on the move (by kerosene lamp) with much amusement. I am a quite content "refugee...
...clothing sizes. Other assets: fruit and vegetables bought from neighboring farms, including a wonderfully fresh local apple juice. Down in Los Angeles, says Bernie, "socially you had to have a swimming pool. Here everyone goes to the Y." In Los Angeles, "you could never get away from the freeway roar. Here, there is silence. And you see the stars when you go out at night...
When Cosmo sets off for the hit, he has a blowout on the Hollywood Freeway. He phones a Yellow Cab to take him the rest of the way. Then, while waiting for transportation to arrive, he calls up the Crazy Horse to see how the show is going. He asks the bartender what number is on. The bartender does not know. "Is it the 'April in Paris' number?" Cosmo demands. The bartender still professes ignorance. Cosmo starts barking out hints: "Is Mr. Sophistication singing I Can't Give You Anything But Love? Look on the back wall...
...reporter The Times never let Salisbury try out any metaphors. Caprice, rather than expressiveness, fathered such images as "the Colorado River, ballooning like an inflated condom," and sometimes Salisbury packs them in more densely than he should: "...a lost river to my generation of Americans locked to our freeway ribbons by steel umbilicals...