Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sticker prices of $2,900 to $3,400, is striking: from 10% of the market just after the embargo to 7.7% now. While inventories of most other cars are sufficient to supply only 60 days of sales, dealers have a 100-day supply of Ford Pintos and even bigger pile-ups of Chevy Vegas...
...album, "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time," for instance, he describes passing through a fading town called Ringling. It has all the potential for being another Bogdanovichian retarded-kid-sweeping-the-middle-of-the-street song, but in the middle Buffett sings: Across from the bar there's a pile of beer cans been there 27 years. Imagine all the heartaches and tears in 27 years of beers...
...authentically inspired. The chapter on Ginny's communal life at the "Free Farmlet" is a wicked send-up of half-baked ideas and less well-prepared menus: "Dinner was a murky soup, filled with dark sodden clumps that looked like leaves from the bottom of a compost pile and that tasted like decomposing seaweed, and whole grain bread which you needed diamond-tipped teeth to chew." The novel teems with cartoon eccentrics mouthing balloonfuls of in flated nonsense...
...hierarchy of ratings. After working each game, refs receive a secret grade on their performance from the coaches of both teams and a "brother" official on a scale from one to ten. Ratings are an official's lifeblood. Those who fall into the bottom ten per cent of the pile at the end of the year are summarily sacked and replaced by "freshmen officials," who are brought up from the snakepits of high school ball and community leagues. "The cut gives iniative to young guys who are just starting out," Diehl says. "I like to think that we're very...
...favorite line is one he used in the Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964: "A Government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life that we'll ever see on this earth." If all the paper churned out by the federal bureaucracy in a year were collected in one pile, he adds, it would be 4,500 feet long, 100 feet wide and 100 feet deep. Asks Reagan: "Wouldn't it make a great annual bonfire...