Word: pedalers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times like these, in the early morning hours, that visions of palm trees and pedal steel guitar music start winking and swaying, sultrily enticing while outside Cambridge's wind chain-saws through the joggers and mailmen. Palm trees equal sunshine, sixpacks, surf. Pedal steel guitars equal smoky night clubs, sequins, cocaine in the back rooms. What more could you want? (For spring vacation, anyway...
...ashes from a three-foot seegar all over the steaming tar pavement and dwarf pine trees, about to blow you off the road and ream out your Youthwagon--that's no time for a country song--that's the time for whipping a Ueey and glueing the gas pedal to the floor board and beating ol' Mack to 21 and beyond...) We had to get into the story, real quick-like...
...Peanut!" to avoid giving rise to the opaque amoebas crawling around in the basement of his soul. In a sort of funeral home official's Gee-I'm-sorry-but-what-range-casket-do-y'all-want voice, Tim said, "Just wait til we get some music--a little pedal steel is all that line needs." I said, "Music, Right." The refugee said, "Yeah...
...Sargent years, the depressing effect of Massachusetts unemployment on the tax base, and the state's commitment to high-cost social service programs. The problem is one he shares with almost every other governor in the U.S. But faced with this first major test, he has decided to back-pedal rather than lead. And his actions during the last six months reveal a lot about the politics of fiscal crisis...
...inevitable clumsiness of taking people's pictures. Two waist-high kids came over to look at the bicycle. One spoke French for both of them, and told me about his father's bike that had a "pa-pa-put" motor on it so he never had to pedal except to get started. He asked me about the name engraved on the frame of the bike, and laughed when I said the American r's in "Sears, Roebuck...