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...other passenger on my bus ride back to the mountains was Tex Williams who couldn't stop talking just as I'm sure couldn't stop riding them Doggies down years ago on TV and radio and when we passed a shiny blue pick-up on South Temple Street, he said "Jesus, what a pick-up, I've never seen one like that before" and we stopped at Colonel Sander's so he could get a chicken dinner, he came out and said, "Jesus, what a place, I've never seen a place like that before" and when the rain...

Author: By Richard D. Rosen, | Title: Found Poems A Short Cultural History of Salt Lake City | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...PICK-UP approached, and we turned and stuck out our thumbs. I thought it would stop and apparently the girl did, too, because when it did go by, she ran a few steps after it, leaned forward and squinted her eyes, and returned, "You see," she said. "I just killed them." The pick-up faded in the distance. "I can do that cause I'm a witch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Road from Gallup to Albuquerque: | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...friend who several years ago walked briskly once around Holyoke Center, has pointed out, "it's just not natural." His point, I think, is that football and soccer are the kind of things everyone engages in at one time or another. But whoever heard of a Sunday afternoon pick-up cross country meet? There is a professionalism, a pure individual drive, built into the sport...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Koerner: A Jock of A Different Ilk | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...Hanson is bludgeoned to death. Billy and Wyatt proceed on to Mardi Gras, make a sentimental trip to the whorehouse, and drop acid with their hookers. But this is, as they say, unsatisfying; they leave New Orleans for some unknown destination. In the film's best sequence, a pick-up truck overtakes them on a Louisiana highway, and some lout, hoping merely to scare Billy, shoots him, and then kills Wyatt...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Easy Rider at the Charles Street Cinema | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...Hanson is bludgeoned to death. Billy and Wyatt proceed on to Mardi Gras, make a sentimental trip to the whorehouse, and drop acid with their hookers. But this is, as they say, unsatisfying; they leave New Orleans for some unknown destination. In the film's best sequence a pick-up truck overtakes them on a Louisiana highway, and some lout, hoping merely to scare Billy, shoots him, and then kills Wyatt...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Easy Rider | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

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