Word: sarsaparilla
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Many of the family groups now assembled are three-generational, something you seldom see in urban America any more. Picnic lunches appear. But in an area heavy with fundamentalist United Methodists, Southern Baptists and Nazarenes, there is not one good ole boy guzzling beer or passing a bottle. Sarsaparilla is the champagne...
After the day's final flight, Costen shyly accepts the $500 check and the big black and yellow world's champion rib bon from Host Evans. Two hundred T shirts have been sold, the sarsaparilla has given out and the Olympic torch is flickering low. Wiping the fried chicken from their fingers, the satisfied spectators slowly meander toward the car pasture. "See you all next year," says Evans, as a state policeman helps the campers and pickups thread in among the giant semis barreling along Route 35. From one departing truck, a rooster crows an unprintable reply. - Spencer...
...rent averages only $150, half that charged for Chicago apartments of similar size. Tenants use every nook and cranny, partitioning off sleeping berths, closets and workshops with hanging plants or plywood. One innovative interior decorator, who moved into a former ice cream parlor, now serves cocktails instead of sarsaparilla from behind the old soda fountain...
...crew recruited largely from skin flicks and the streets. Critics hated it, distributors shunned it. But black audiences loved Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a foxy film centering around an outlaw from the ghetto who throws down girls-white and black -the way Billy the Kid tossed back sarsaparilla. In the end he gets away with everything. Huey Newton, Black Panther defense minister, called it "the first truly revolutionary black film...
...track and the outback. Today the setting of Australian writing is city and suburb. Patrick White, the country's leading novelist, achieved fame with Voss, his novel about an explorer; today, in a style reminiscent of John Cheever and John Updike, he dissects the fictional suburb of Sarsaparilla, probably modeled after Sydney's leafy Castle Hill area. Barry Humphries, Australia's foremost humorist, savagely satirizes what he calls "the pseuds"-the self-consciously trendy Australians caught up in an age of television, jet charters and public relations. But his chief targets are suburban living and Australian respectability...