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...bought a Cadillac last week," Foreman said the other day. "I mean, it's been eight years since I had a decent car. I love this truck"--as he spoke, he was driving his Ford pickup around his 200-acre ranch outside Marshall, Texas--"but it's a truck. I got rid of the Mercedes, the Rolls-Royce, all that stuff, because it made people stiffen up. Like they wanted to compete. They're more relaxed when I don't have a good car. But I needed a car, an American car, and I needed a big car because...
...April Fool's eve, and 2,000 of the faithful have filed into < the sold-out Tupperware Convention Center in Kissimmee, Fla. On the lawn outside stands a light infantry of pickup trucks; one bumper sign reads GOD GUNS AND GUTS MADE AMERICA--LET'S KEEP ALL THREE. Inside, an army of tattoos comes to attention as the houselights fall, the speakers blare That's Entertainment, and the giant screen flashes the words LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN: WRESTLEMANIA. The magic moment has arrived. And so, for the moment, has the bastard sport of pro wrestling. From glittery Manhattan (where...
...Mathewson on the mound and Lou Gehrig playing first, seems to call for a lot more baseball than Willard has seen fit to include. She certainly touches on an awful lot of other things, and perhaps it is because she does tackle so much that the leisurely. Saturday-afternoon-pickup air of the first three-quarters of the book evaporates in a rush as it tumbles to its conclusion...
...fact in favor of completing the pullout earlier than this summer's planned deadline. That mood was reinforced early in the week when Israeli soldiers in an army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column and, as the Israelis passed, exploded. An open "safari" truck was reduced to a pile of smoldering metal, with twelve of the troopers aboard killed. It was the worst single loss the Israeli forces had suffered in southern Lebanon in 16 months...
...overdose. Let other high school chums compare the relative merits of different Ray-Ban tints or Coppertone 6 versus Coppertone 4, but Gib still savors the meaning in life "Who invented liquid soap and why?" No talk of etching or astrological signs in his romantic approaches; witness his favorite pickup line: "Imagine a sexual experience so intense it could potentially change your political views...