Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corner of a motel room, a not very subtle melodrama unfolded. As a fat bailiff and a sinister, black-hatted attorney looked on, a man in tattered wig and skirt, playing the role of Mary, Mary Workman, demanded custody of "her" child. Judge Hardly D. Fairman leered and laughed as devoted but helpless Father Adam Workman looked on, awaiting the worst...
Rossler and some 60 other aggrieved males were gathered at a motel in Portland, Ore., for the fifth annual meeting of the National Convention for Men, an umbrella group for some 36 organizations representing more than 6,000 people who want to change divorce and custody law. The air was thick with smoke and anger as conventioners huddled in the halls and motel bar, denouncing "father bashing" and "female chauvinism," muttering about the hidden agenda of man-hating and lesbian social workers, and comparing the law's treatment of divorcing men to the Holocaust and Salem witch-hunts...
...middle of America one summer weekend (to be precise, at a motel at the intersection of Interstate 75 and Buttermilk Pike, in Fort Mitchell, Ky., just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati), there was a gathering of about 300 people who can talk without moving their lips (reading, that is another matter). Ventriloquists all, they brought their dummies. There were people everywhere not so much talking to other people as talking through their dummies to other people's dummies (just leave it alone, folks, and lower that eyebrow...
...dummy in the motel corridor said to another. "I'm Oscar from Cape Cod. Where are you from...
...horizon-piercing interstates, luckless marriages and faithless love, dumb faith and poor prospects -- and blows all the cobwebs away because his eye is fresh and because he appears to be the very guy he's singing about, a Lone Star Everyman with a "two-pack habit and a motel tan." An old-fashioned engine, maybe, but built for speed and just the thing to get country music back on the track...