Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Saturday night, I may have made my last trip to Bright Center...
...scene establishes the play's mood of underlying despair and over-hanging wit. Max accuses his wife Charlotte of infidelity, disputing her claim that she has just returned from a Geneva art auction. Due to Stoppard's cunning, his ambiguous lines refer to either her new lover or her trip. "How's old Geneva then? Frank doing well?" "What?" Charlotte asks. "The Swiss Franc. Is it doing well?" They refuse to address the crisis at hand. Instead, Max digresses on apparently far-out topics which actually parallel the scene's conflict, a technique Stoppard uses and overuses later...
...ECAC Championship would assure a team of an automatic NCAA bid. A trip to the title game tomorrow night can give a team the league's second invitation to the national tournament. A loss in the semis, and a team's chances are as good as Don King's hair ever flattening...
Passengers are concerned that the airlines will try to rewrite the basic rules governing the plans. When a few carriers tried last year to increase the number of miles needed to qualify for free trips, many consumers were outraged. Attorneys general in several states concluded that the airlines' action was illegal, and the carriers backed off. But travelers remain wary. Tom Nolan, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney who has banked 150,000 miles on United, is contemplating a trip to Malaysia, Singapore and China later this year. It is earlier than he would like to travel, but, he says...
...more intriguing disclosures concerns La Pipa (the Pipe), a smuggling operation carried on by the DFS. According to Gabriel, the agency in the late 1970s acquired about 600 tanker trucks, ostensibly for ferrying natural gas from the U.S. for sale in Mexico. On the northbound leg of the trip, DFS men packed the empty trucks with marijuana provided by Mexican dealers and ran ten to twelve trucks a day into Phoenix and Los Angeles. At the border, several Mexican officials and U.S. Customs personnel were bribed $50,000 a load to let the trucks pass...