Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murray Schisgal sees life as a sickness from which most people recover, and he amusingly deflates the gassy, self-pitying bosh that is talked about it. Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson ride this troika of hilarity...
Macabre Memories. Hitching a ride back to Saigon from a remote staging area, Faas found himself in the midst of a major operation by South Vietnamese troops against a Viet Cong stronghold in Binh Duong province. He noticed that the troops were unusually edgy and soon learned why. Helicopters were scheduled to lay down a cloud of "nausea gas" just before the attack and, while the gas was nonlethal, the South Vietnamese were leery...
...bottom, apartments-on-top building seems a promising new concept for modern metropolis dwellers and real estate operators. Because of fumes, taxi horns and all-night neon signs, the lower floors of most centrally located apartment houses have been a drug on the market. By giving apartments a piggyback ride on the top of office buildings, realtors can not only lift tenants far above the hurly-burly of the streets, but also keep them close to the city's center...
...dilapidated house on the edge of a town, where they swap girls, drugs and stolen motorcycle parts with equal abandon. In between drug-induced stupors, the Angels go on motorcycle-stealing forays, even have a panel truck with a special ramp for loading the stolen machines. Afterward, they may ride off again to seek some new nadir in sordid behavior...
...same day, I was driving along Route 80 from Selma to Montgomery. About a mile outside of Selma, I noticed a helicopter hovering above the car. Beside me was a white CRIMSON photographer, and in the back seat was a young Negro who had asked us for a ride. The top was down, and we could soon see that a man in the helicopter was looking at us through binoculars and taking photographs. He followed us closely for 15 miles, until we suddenly veered into a gas station...