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...Daddy, showed up recently at the National Hot Rod Association Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., in a new $100,000 dragster with no front tires at all. What he had instead, under an aerodynamic wraparound front end of his own design, was a couple of machine belts barely thick enough to keep the thing from running on its wheel rims...
...with chocolate chip cookies, frozen yogurt, oversize muffins and all the other sweet and faddish snacks? Then you might consider cinnamon rolls, perhaps the ultimate in sugary binges. Now taking defenseless nibblers by storm in the shopping malls of the Midwest, South and Far West, these huge pinwheels of thick dough enfold gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled coliseums...
...buns cost $1.25 each, and the top Kansas City shop grossed $50,000 in March. All the bakeries follow much the same routine, offering the rolls as the only solid food, along with coffee, tea and soft drinks. As each one is purchased, it gets a lacing of a thick, viscous white icing, unless the customer protests. At Cinnamon Sam's in Kansas City and Cinnamon Kitchen in Tampa, the buns can be "personalized" with a choice of toppings, such as caramel nut, honey butter, rum raisin, apple and cinnamon...
Leading the forces of chaos were "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." Wallace became the Spartacus of an American class revolt against the elite and the chic and the powerful. He developed a fine dismissive snarl. "Send them a message," he said, in that thick, dark voice. Half an inch beneath the surface of his words there ran an undercurrent of menace. There was a backwoods defiance in the fire that lit George Wallace up. There was also something, more than something, of the opportunist and the demagogue...
...consistency are very hard to find," he adds. "People who make a consistent life choice to orientate their lives around the search for God often have a magnetic effect on people which helps them make their choices and take the risks of consistency. We will be together through thick or thin and we'll still be here 10 years from now. People will always say to us `you're always there...