Word: motel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later came another intensive series of tapings, Irving says, which lasted ten to twelve days. All of these were in Irving's motel on the fringes of a city in the U.S. During this period, Hughes prodded Irving to change his rental car every day. Hughes refused to meet Irving's wife, but by chance he did encounter Richard Susskind, a researcher Irving had hired. "Would you like a prune?" Hughes asked. "Yes," said Susskind, "if it is an organic prune...
Trouble began on New Year's Day, when 20 black men and women checked into a Baton Rouge motel. City police soon began receiving complaints from local merchants that the group was vigorously canvassing their neighborhoods asking for contributions. Some witnesses say they represented themselves as a young artists group, while others allege that they handed out Black Muslim literature. The group also announced a street rally for early last week, to be followed by a march to city hall...
...Wheels, without the geographical limitations of his earlier schlockbusters, Hotel and Airport, Hailey lets his high-octane narrative wander throughout the city: black-white confrontation in a parking lot, murder in a car factory, adultery in a motel. Eerily for me, many of the scenes take place in the shopping centers, auto dealerships and driveways of my home town of Birmingham, also home of the rocky marriage of Adam and Erica Trenton. Adam, the book's hero, is reportedly modelled on GM Vice President John DeLorean, known in the industry as a young Turk because he used to drive foreign...
...sugar technicians who flew into New Orleans with 20 minutes' notice to the air controllers and without visas to attend an international sugar conference; it seems they had been invited by the conference's officers, but nonplused U.S. immigration officials first penned them up in an airport motel, then moved them to a naval base and started deportation proceedings...
...talks but merely inhales. There is another guy who wears a nun's habit and is supposed to represent a groupie who has taken an overdose of barbiturates and ascends to Heaven. There is Jeff the bass player who drinks a vile foamy liquid, freaks out, steals his entire motel room, packs it in an empty beer bottle, and deserts the group in order to start a solo...