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...quintessential small-town girl, Connie is beautifully portrayed by Laura Dern. She's a shimmery blonde with the kind of natural, unfinished all-American good looks that an Eileen Ford talent scout would spot beneath all the pancake powder and lipstick. But Dern plays Connie as a girl who has not yet come into her own. She's tall and thin and leggy, but she walks with a knock-kneed self-conscious slouch. When she tries to be sexy, the worst of Valley Girl fashion comes out of the closet. Too much hairspray, too many jiggly bangles, plastic colorful earrings...
...George drivers all have a lot of what one fan calls "walkin'- around sense." They don't much care what the book says or how Detroit would do it. But homemade fixes abound. A visitor to the pits may notice a mechanic sprinkling baby powder on a manifold gasket to keep it from sticking next time the engine is taken apart. The makeshift caps some crews use to keep debris out of the headers may also look familiar: they're soda cans sawed in half. Finally, a newcomer will be appalled to see Garlits flip a lighted match into...
...women's sailing team turned in a mediocore performance this weekend, placing sixth in the Powder Puff Trophy in Rhode Island...
Known for his conservative views, O'Neil actively opposed mandatory school integration in Boston when it was introduced in 1974. He was a member of the anti-busing organization Powder Keg and led marches and rallies opposing integration. He attempted to make busing a campaign issue in the Eighth Congressional race but had little success...
...game necessary to feed his family would have been horrified by Theodore Roosevelt, who could not have consumed more than one ten-thousandth of the animals he slaughtered. Roosevelt loved hunting the way that Imelda loves shopping. He loved the kick of the gun and the smell of the powder. He loved the antlers. The same sportive hormones may be active in Imelda. Nature is filled with wild waste, unthinkable redundancies. Why does nature toss off a billion sperm when only one of them is necessary to fertilize a human egg? Imelda's shoes, ecologically baffling, are part...