Word: motel
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...drinking water. Duluth now gets asbestos-free drinking water from a new $7 million filtration plant, largely financed by the Federal Government, but the animosity against Silver Bay lingers. "This is a hell of a way to live," complains Gene Jadwin, 37, owner of the Silver Bay Motel. "This anxiety is really hard on your family life." Marital tensions have risen as the town's predicament has worsened; there were five divorces in 1971 and 30 in 1975. "We're seeing a lot of stress-related symptoms," says Dr. Donald Haase, 53, one of the town...
...finest example around of blues-finger disco--turn it up and watch the room shudder the way the highway does when its 100 in the shade. Hot Rocks had nothing on this--only burnt your feet like those Pacific s-m islanders' who walk on red hot terraces. Memory Motel replaces the no-tell in this chivalric age. Just listen to the electric-heart-blending story of the pick-up truck girl if you doubt me. And if you've been crispy-ried black by the rest of this album run out to the hardware store for a $1.20 blue...
...appearances, the long wait seemed almost over for Gary Mark Gilmore last week. Just as he had been demanding ever since his conviction two months ago for the murder of a 25-year-old motel clerk in Provo, Utah, Gilmore was being given the right to die. After a steamy two-hour hearing before the state board of pardons, the board voted 2 to 1 to grant the condemned man's plea that he stand "like a man" in front of a firing squad in the first U.S. execution in almost a decade. The following day, District Court Judge...
...First Family may help push the roughing-it fashions into high gear. The President-elect clomps around Plains, Ga., in cowhide ankle boots, blue jeans and flannel shirt. Brother Billy breakfasted (on grits and Pabst) at the Best Western Motel in Americus, Ga., last week wearing denims and a blue plaid shirt opened to reveal his new, post-election T shirt emblazoned with REDNECK LOBBYIST. Of course, to them and many Americans the gear look is an old look, something they have been comfortably wearing for years...
...July his uncle threw him out of the house because of his drinking, and then his companion, Nicole Barrett, went back to her ex-husband. A week later, on successive nights, Gilmore shot and killed a gas-station attendant and a motel clerk, both of them students at Brigham Young University. There were no apparent motives. After his trial and conviction in the motel slaying, Gilmore explained in court that it had been "something like watching someone else pull the trigger, looking at the scene through a wall of water...