Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours later, Raglan was up-to-date and I was cruising back to Hamilton. I hated to leave the quiet, beachside town but duty--and my breakneck itinerary--called. I caught a ride with two eccentric young woman who drove a green, vintage Austin Freeway, a handsome retrocar that struggled on SH23's steep bits...
...have a few more myths to refute about this whole bus business. First of all, there's no way a bus could ever get up to and stay at 50 miles per hour on a Los Angeles freeway. No way, no how, sorry Sandra Bullock but in real life you would have been toast...
When O.J. Simpson hurtled down the freeway in his Bronco, Deena Mullen missed it. She also skipped the televised trial involving "that basketball player." Mullen's distance from the case that compelled the universe won her a spot on the jury of Simpson's civil trial. Here, in an affecting hour-long monologue, Mullen, chillingly, economically, reduces the Simpson affair to what it was: a grisly murder...
...American boys absorbed Joe DiMaggio's example of doing whatever you do with grace and dignity--took the occasion of Joltin' Joe's death to push the idea of naming the West Side Highway the Joe DiMaggio Highway, and Governor George Pataki resisted that in favor of a freeway in the Bronx. The agendas reflected in the argument were theirs, of course, rather than DiMaggio's; Pataki wants the Bronx Bombers to stay where they are, and Giuliani would like to see Yankee Stadium on the West Side of Manhattan, next to what used to be poor Julius Miller...
...dominant gender in a menage-a-trois relies on the subjugation of the third individual. Such an obvious rule is complicated by I Get's three-way freeway between Hal Elujah, Stella Virgin and Brook Werm. Two men, one woman? Three men? One man, two women (assuming that if women in the Hasty Pudding show are men, then men are women)? Stella Virgin (Robert Schlesinger '00) is a dangerously subversive character, a postmodern repetition of the much-parodied "White House intern" figure. Doused in blush and armed with a lolli (ta)pop, Schlesinger's cotton candy-cum-phallus...