Word: hammocks
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...Elsewhere, he charts the sly history of the swing, which he describes in his book as "a pale copy of a onetime bold device for generating violent motion and emotion" of a sexual nature, mostly in women. He suggests that all forms of "bobbing mania," from lying in a hammock to tipping a rocking chair, may be "aquiver with racial memories of our arboreal ancestors swaying in a breeze...
...Cars, a Boston band, go big for flash, echo and cosmic inconclusion. Dire Straits are English and purvey a sort of oblique narrative rock so relaxed and laid back, with its easygoing guitar licks and sleepytime vocals, that the record could have been recorded live in a hammock...
...There is a rhubarb patch-survivor of a century of drought, blizzard and small boys-that still yields its tender shoots for pies, a singular delicacy, which, when done right, is a dish to tempt a Paul Bocuse. A hand pump still stands proudly on a cistern. The rope hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft and the split door. The barn had been built for a new horse and buggy when Henry Ford was still considered a crank...
...nights, Amy sometimes retreats to her tree house, a platform five feet up among the leaves and boasting a hammock. Just to remind everyone that politics can never be totally absent, the President also saw to it that an invitation to the tree house was extended to the daughter of a Republican Congressman who had supported his opposition to natural-gas deregulation...
...lifestyle, is a gentle blend of folksy Southern rock and infatuation with the Caribbean. Buffett writes, often puckishly, of Gulf Stream idyls, Latin crimes of passion, and tequila-filled days. His themes, presented in simple rhythms and sung in an engaging baritone, have the languorous appeal of a fishnet hammock. As he sings in Wastin' Away Again in Margaritaville...