Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minute. Then we turned around and headed back down doing some 20s at 3/4 slide to get the rate up: 34, then 38. Finally a couple starting sequence pieces: five, ten, and ten strokes at full pressure before taking the boat out and heading back to the hotel. I love the taper; my back feels good, my legs aren't tired, we're all full of energy...
...hotel room." He laughs. "Got another cigarette?" he asks Beth. "Know what that is?" He points to a patch sewed to the thigh of his black pants. "It's the rebel flag. It's the symbol of the Confederacy." He laughs again, takes a drag of his cigarette. "I love to piss people...
...Tamika's face falls. "I'm glad I'm not in love with him or anything," she says. "If he's giving me his girlfriend's pager number...
...just needs a little love," she says, fingering its worn-through pockets...
...otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away from the graveness of life, but a poignant attempt to raise something up out of the ruins of broken ideals without the recourse of myth...