Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attendant at the combined bus terminal motel in Manchester glances at the city's Union Leader, tool of conservative publisher William Loeb, which has Ronald Reagan splayed all over the front page. "Every day, the same thing," he says...
...court or to the gallows. He still raises cattle on his ten thousand acres. Pepper still hunts, but Capote hints that Quinn will never be caught. His message, told in prose that floats across the American plains, from New York to Venice to Istanbul and back to the Prairie Motel in the "small western state," is clear: we will always be "detestable...
This time, Waits is stepping out with a new bunch of musicians, including among its ranks guitarist Terry Evans, late of many a Little Richard and Ray Charles revue. Waits discovered Evans playing in the dimly lit recesses of a Ventura motel bar. "Times are tough," Waits mumbles knowingly...
...signs of restlessness were there. After returning from the road, Waits moved out of his long-time abode at the Tropicana Motel, now the stopover spot for spiky-haired English punk bands. Waits exited the place after one too many magazine articles had mentioned his residence there, resulting in one too many adoring fans knocking on his door at four in the morning. He moved to an apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard. Then to a house in Silver Lake. From there he slept in a series of seedy motels until the day he headed for the Big Apple...
...much for new urban landscapes. Has he abandoned all resolve and returned to his digs at the Tropicana? "No, I was staying in another motel -- a little Vietnam. I've found another apartment...