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Heading for the finish line, Wickhamhas scored a mere 275 points in his final round, placing him 252 in a field of 360. He gives the bandit a kick with his black snakeskin boot. Tilt! "They put this machine in cold water," he growls. "It's giving me ice cubes." Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! The tournament is over. Mr. Slot King has crapped...
Black worked in construction for a while, plugged away hard at making a musical name for himself through the boom years in Houston and the Urban Cowboy vogue of the early '80s, when every citybilly wanted to wear snakeskin boots and ride a mechanical bronc. "Hundreds of western-wear stores popped up around that time," Black observes dryly. "But, musically, I couldn't hear a lot of difference...
...former patients he manages to see behave strangely: "In each there has occurred a sloughing away of the old terrors, worries, rages, a shedding of guilt like last year's snakeskin, and in its place is a mild fond vacancy, a species of unfocused animal good spirits." Among the victims of this odd malady is Tom's second wife Ellen, who in his enforced absence has become a star on the tournament bridge circuit. She has developed the ability to compute exactly the location of all cards in the hands of her partner and opponents. She speaks in two-word...
...Mark's, are such items as an Eva Goodman nylon raincoat, colored like a beachball, done up with sailing-line pullies and decorated with squirmy rubber fishing lures; a black rubber dress with a zip from back to hem by Mariann Marlowe; and an all-vinyl snakeskin suit by Animal-X. Some of the clothes go for immediate impact over staying power. But there are a fair number of designers, like Morton and Goodman, who are imaginative enough to be in no immediate danger of a burnout, and there are others, as well, who show signs of staying the course...
...huge difference between these figures: where Loman was damp with pathos, Snider burns with rage as he watches his discovery moving up and away from him. Seeing through the hypocrisy of those who build empires on sleaze, he cannot believe they will shut him out just because he wears snakeskin cowboy boots to their revels or drapes a prematurely friendly arm around Hef's shoulders...