Word: haulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched and hasty passages), and his use of cinematic framing and lighting conventions gives his scenes a subtle push-pull of vividness and artificiality. This artist is clearly set for the long haul, into the 21st century...
Twenty years ago, Andretti finished third, Johncock fifth and Al Unser ninth in their first Indy, when a bumper haul of eleven rookies made the field of 33 and five finished in the top ten. "An eternity ago," says Andretti, 45, a compact man with a Roman bearing. "It doesn't seem that long" to Unser, 45, who at first professed to understand Johncock's decision. "No, that's not fair," he amended. "I don't understand it. I haven't done it." This is the usual difficulty in discussing anything about auto racing. No one who hasn't done...
...south, stopped a Winnebago for a minor traffic violation and discovered 2,094 lbs. of marijuana inside. But that was only an hors d'oeuvre. Before long a second Winnebago was stopped. Inside were 31 duffel bags stuffed with more than a ton of cocaine, a record haul for town police. Admiring colleagues at the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington noted that the two tons of cocaine seized in one day, with a total value of more than $1 billion, compared quite favorably with the total of twelve tons captured by all U.S. law officers...
...grand place in Houston for an $81,000 house in a suburb called Humble. He preaches on the weekends and Wednesday nights, mows his yard, trims his hedges and spends two days a week on the ranch, threading his truck between slash pines and pin oaks to haul feed to his cows and horses. Animals are his passion--animals and sleeping and eating. "I think sleeping was my problem in school," he allowed. "If school had started at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today." Foreman dropped out of junior high school...
There is, of course, the usual danger of getting nibbled to death by puns: "Haul up your socks and sintillate"; "Tending a cemetery is a grave responsibility." "It Midas well be spring," says a man fixing his car muffler. The book's conspicuous title can have a number of meanings, all socially redeemed because the line is Shakespeare's ("The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon," Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 4). But there are no star-crossed lovers, only heavenly bodies tumbling from orbit to bounce in the bed of Eddie Teeters...