Word: saddlebags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downhill. A couple of campers in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia awoke one morning to find a bike had been stolen; they found it a few hundred feet away under a bush, badly mauled by a bear that had wanted the food in the saddlebag. A party of cyclists in southern Wyoming hit a late spring snowstorm and had to be rescued. Contaminated water made bikers sick at three campgrounds in Idaho...
...swears with precision and puts up a heated battle when Robin insists on saving her from the sheriffs clutches. She would as soon go to prison, but she has little choice in the matter. Robin slings her over the back of a horse as if she were a saddlebag...
Written by Nicole Ronsard, 35-ish, an attractive Frenchwoman, the book speaks directly to women who worry about having dimpled flesh, "jodhpur thighs," "saddlebag buttocks" and other imperfections. These are caused, says Mme. Ronsard, by cellulite, which she defines as a gel-like substance made up of fat, water and wastes that becomes trapped in lumpy, immovable pockets just beneath the skin. Cellulite cannot be burned off by conventional diets, says Ronsard; even when poundage is pared away, this "superfat" remains...
...author of a novel as good as Thomas Berger's Little Big Man is not soon forgiven. That marvelous saddlebag full of lies from the Old West was too crankily individualistic for the kind of discreet repetition that is the basis of a successful literary career. Yet anything short of a second Little Big Man is likely to be waved fretfully away by Berger's most devoted admirers...