Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Utah real estate from a radio ad; the flower child who steals from an old man. She has the good fortune to have the best lines in the show. When asked where she'll stay in Utah, she says, "The country's gone to shit; there's always a motel." But Franklin's insightful portrayal only makes the shortcomings of the rest of the cast more painfully obvious...
...cent tax on hotel and motel rooms...
...drugs. He checked into a psychiatric hospital in Arizona but stayed only six weeks before returning to California-and to drugs. Although he managed to keep practicing medicine, his professional reputation suffered. At 42, totally strung out on narcotics and with his career in ruins, Garcia checked into a motel and deliberately overdosed on heroin...
...search out smaller deposits. Hamlets in the area like Old Dime Box and La Grange have turned into boomtowns. In Giddings, the epicenter of the oilfield, houses that rented for $75 a month now go for $300, and one local entrepreneur is converting old oil-storage tanks into motel rooms renting for $20 a night. That is exactly what the girls at the old Chicken Ranch used to charge...
...inability to find how to stage Lolita without either ponderous moralizing or trivializing farce. As long as society remains uncomfortable with this subject while simultaneously exploiting it--and that, no doubt, will be a long time--Lolita will be far safer at home with Nabokov than in some motel room with a leering playwright...