Word: mufflered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, of course, the usual danger of getting nibbled to death by puns: "Haul up your socks and sintillate"; "Tending a cemetery is a grave responsibility." "It Midas well be spring," says a man fixing his car muffler. The book's conspicuous title can have a number of meanings, all socially redeemed because the line is Shakespeare's ("The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon," Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 4). But there are no star-crossed lovers, only heavenly bodies tumbling from orbit to bounce in the bed of Eddie Teeters...
Indigenous ruburbanites have developed interesting ways to remind migrants of their presence. Inner-city inhabitants carry ghetto-blaster radios to announce themselves, but ruburban teen-agers favor, as the weapon of aural aggression, the 1973 Pontiac Trans Am with full-throat custom muffler. Rubber is applied to Main Street far into the night, accompanied by rebel yells and the shattering of beer bottles. Newcomers create different problems for the police. Although such naughty amusements are passe in the suburbs, the police chief of Harvard, Ill., had to ask the host of a nude cocktail party to pull the shades...
...will go away. When it doesn't, after a while they back up about ten yards to get a running start. Well, the mud might be a foot deep and the ruts two feet deep. Their wheels get cross-rutted, and the mud just drags off their muffler and shoots them across the road into the bushes. It's very interesting to see people scratch their heads and try to figure it out. Some just abandon their cars and start walking. Especially if they are in the mud over the door handles...
...your description of Governor Jerry Brown in Des Moines looking like a Princeton undergraduate [Jan. 21]: send me a check to cover the cost of the three-piece suit and the muffler, and I will gladly conform to your archetype of a Princeton undergraduate...
Dressed in a meticulously tailored three-piece suit with a muffler tossed around his neck as though he were a Princeton undergraduate, Brown presented himself as an alternative to discontented voters. He said that if people do not want to vote for him, they should at least stay uncommitted. Though he has little organization in Iowa, he is supported by some political zealots, and they tend to go to caucuses. Local politicians estimate that Brown might pick up from 5% to 10% of the vote...