Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year at the helm, and coach Restic would ride off into the sunset like all coaching legends do--Stagg, Rockne, Bryant, and now the greatest of them all, Restic...
...loves and enjoys his mother -- call the cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings. The novel is "only" about a New England shopping tour, on which Hedy's son Joe hitches a ride. But if war novels can teach us about manhood, why can't a shopping novel reconcile capitalism and humanism? And do so in a voice that merges Jane Austen with a Bloomingdale's catalog? I'll Take It is about informed, unconditional family love; this makes it rare among modern novels...
...making detailed preparations for a surrender. Koresh, accompanied by DeGuerin, would come out first and be whisked away, perhaps by helicopter. Others will walk up a dirt road about 100 yards, pass through metal detectors to make sure they are not carrying weapons, then board buses for a ride of several miles to a processing center already set up inside a cavernous airplane hangar on the grounds of Texas State Technical College. There they will be stripped, dressed in prison garb, photographed and sent to local jails...
Maybe the next bus ride back won't be so quiet...
...most dramatic moment of the evening took place during Dionysius' ride on Charon's ferry across the river Styx. A large boat, draped in a gloomy blue, spookily emerged and circulated through the audience, Dionysius rowing and Charon (also puppeteered by Sperry) booming irascibly...