Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creative imagination was needed to keep the show somewhat entertaining, especially to dull the Pharcyde's annoying behavior. Between songs, they plugged their two albums Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde and Labcabincalifornia relentlessly. They seemed more interested in making money than performing well for an eager audience. If for every time they mentioned the albums they gave the crowd a couple minutes of good music, the concert would have been a highlight of the day rather than the bittersweet ending to Spring Fest...
...point where dual-wage-earner families are now the norm. Yet somehow neither work nor the family has changed enough to make this a tenable situation. Day care is still catch as catch can. Employers still demand 110%, while spouses and children still need clean socks and a ride to the dentist. Add stagnating wages and layoff anxiety, and for millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry...
Jessica became interested in flying after her parents gave her an airplane ride for her sixth birthday, which was only 23 months ago. She began taking flying lessons twice a week with Reid, who said she was an able pilot, though what that means for a seven-year-old is open to question. Her father footed the bill for the flying lessons--about $50 an hour--and also shelled out about $15,000 for the cross-country odyssey. "That's less than I'd pay for private school," Dubroff told the San Francisco Examiner...
...Half Moon city council. Dubroff spent $1,300 on custom-made baseball caps to distribute to friends and the media. They read, JESSICA WHITNEY DUBROFF, SEA TO SHINING SEA, april 1996. He also primed her to write a letter to President Clinton, inviting him along for a ride. "To visit you at the White House would be wonderful," she wrote in her simple, child's hand, "and clearly to pilot an airplane that you would be in would bring me even greater joy." (The White House did not accept...
...frictionless blue and sailed like a gull on thermals all the way to Cape Cod--had wheeled there, and floated back across America, borne aloft now on the nation's cheers, across the Rockies to California, where she would touch down and climb grinning from the cockpit, and ride on her father's shoulders through a tumult of television cameras and microphones, and would do the Today show live with Katie, and talk to Bill Clinton from the White House...