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...Trilogy, the moral polarities of Bradleyville are defined in all their loneliness by Southern Baptists and Red Groove's bar. Lust exercises itself on Saturday nights in dusty pickup trucks at drive-ins, and pays for itself in house trailers. The cycle of life is dramatized by Lu Ann: cheerleader at 17, beautician at 27, "howdy wagon" hostess at 37. For the Bradleyville young who go away and come back, the big news 20 years later is, "The Dairy Queen put in a new parking lot." As for social vision, Bradleyville sees little beyond the astigmatic pathos...
...Frixes sell nearly all their produce at a giant red white and blue roadside farm stand that Frix built himself. But when few customers visit the stand, Frix piles the produce into his pickup truck and drives north to Atlanta's Farmers Market, sometimes sleeping in the truck for several nights until all the peaches and vegetables are sold. Last year his total sales came to $16,100, out of which he netted a mere $3,720. Outlays for sprays, seed and fertilizer ate up $10,000 his two aging tractors cost another...
Early Sunday morning, to the sound of church bells, the evacuation began. Small pickup trucks, cars and buses clogged the roads to the adjoining island of Grande-Terre. Some residents were taken out by sea. And some others, participants in the Tour de Guadeloupe bicycle race, left on their bikes. "Most people didn't wait to pack," said Pierre Renaison, 52, a biologist. "They left with just the clothes on their backs...
...electricity has surged too. Some utility men even fear that generating capacity may be strained as the economic pickup proceeds, bringing back the brownouts and occasional blackouts of the early 1970s...
...adolescent wonderboy can be klutzy. Taking a driving lesson, Andy hits the brakes of his pickup and drives his foot through the floorboard. He buys a pair of shoes and when he wiggles his toes the seams pop. Daddy Majors clearly has another rival on his hands...