Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people, and he has, it would seem, never met a woman Brando failed to bed or a man he failed finally to betray. His sense of propriety is typified by his willingness to trail Brando's daughter Cheyenne as she leaves her psychiatric clinic, corner her on a park bench and record without qualification her accusations about her father's role in the murder of her lover in 1990. Driven to possess another man's life, Manso becomes the literary version of one of the late 20th century's scariest specimens, the celebrity stalker...
...carried an organ-donor card, had communicated to her family her wish to be a donor and even drove a car with a bumper sticker promoting donations -- had been thrown from a car when it hit a rock wall on the Tennessee side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The vacation, said her brother Bob, was to have been her "last hurrah before starting school" in the fall. Instead she ended up at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, brain dead...
Take a drive out of Manhattan, first east, then south, and in about an hour you arrive at one of the most pleasing monuments to activist government to be found in America: Jones Beach, a magnificent ocean park built on a sandbar off the south shore of Long Island. Jones Beach opened 65 years ago, Governor Franklin Roosevelt of New York presiding. But the idea had erupted full blown from the mind of that public-works genius and master builder, Robert Moses. A few years earlier, arriving by boat on that desolate stretch of sand, he sketched on the back...
...sweaty city to this marvel of a beach. You can still see it today. True, gone are the legions of sailor-suited college students picking up trash. Gone too, in this age of tort, the archery range and roller rink. But the rest is there, a grand beach park for yet another generation of working-class New Yorkers, with Hispanics and blacks now joining the original beach population of white ethnics...
...everything from her pancake-white makeup to her recital of the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican Convention. Dirt Rag is a service zine for dirt bikers that lists the sport's contests and teaches readers how to make spiked ice tires for the winter. Chuck glorifies trailer- park food -- such dishes as Armour Potted Meat Food Product; and FishWrap publishes poetry like Craig Thompson's "Swarm," which includes the line: "Splattered on the windshield, a thousand gnats struck low by physics...