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...gasoline industry is also building hundreds of huge truck stops that cater to practically every need of the drivers. At Wildwood, Fla., Pure Oil has just opened a 23-acre, $550,000-station that includes-in addition to 28 pumps-a motel, restaurant, barber shop, clothing store and free shower-&-steam-rooms. In North Lima, Ohio, an American Oil truck stop includes feeding facilities for traveling cattle and a rabbi to supervise shipments of kosher meat, which must be watered down every 72 hours between the slaughter and its delivery...
...economy and masterfully uncovers the cruelty buried under centuries-old layers of Spanish folkways. The best of this sober sex drama catches every nuance of self-denial in the shock of an unexpected word or gesture; the giddy, slightly drunken release of inhibitions among women at a bridal shower; the total revelation of loneliness and hunger in the eyes of a widower who paces through a long empty night, his imagination inflamed by a last light flickering out in the house across...
...between the two bitterly warring families, but was itself a failure ending in a 1949 divorce, after which she embarked on another unhappy marriage, grew increasingly depressed and spent frequent periods in rest homes; by her own hand (she was found hanging by her braided bathrobe belt from a shower-curtain rod); in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich...
...Wednesday night, a second year law student studying on the south side of the Langell Library reading Room turned to his neighbor and said "pardon me, but when was your last shower...
...heroine of the title story is Melba Toast, "the skinniest stripper in America." Blonde and randy, Melba wears the longest fake eyelashes in New York and the tightest clothes. Aging millionaires delight in lending her their Cadillacs and shower her with $100 bills. Melba is a direct descendant of Lorelei Lee in Anita Loos's 1925 bestseller, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and, like Lorelei, has a mousy girl friend to come along on double dates...