Word: truck
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...most haunting speeches Shepard has ever written (which is unfortunately undermined by the music.) Niles and Paulette wander through the music and madness, acting out a ritual exorcism of his personalities, Pable and Louis find themselves sucked further and further in. You can drive a truck twixt the shadow and the reality, Shepard seems to be saying, and it's not a question of going over the deep end since there really isn't any difference between the two. The line between sanity and reality is just a membrane--and we are all the hapless victims of osmosis...
...ranch, where she had plenty of time to read. A dog-eared Book of Knowledge encyclopedia, copies of the National Geographic Magazine and her father's assorted volumes from the Book-of-the-Month Club fed her curiosity. By the age often, she could drive both a truck and a tractor. "I didn't do all the things boys did, but I fixed windmills and repaired fences." Recalls her girlhood friend and cousin, Flournoy Manzo: "We played with dolls, but we knew what to do with screwdrivers and nails too. Living on a ranch made us very self...
Take your average family from Los Angeles: Dad's gotta have a car to get to work. Mom's gotta have a car to run all those errands. Juedye (Judy) has to have one to get to the health food store. Mack needs a pickup truck so he can haul around babes in the back of it (you really shouldn't show your face at a beach down there unless you got a pick up to haul around babes in). And little Flowertruth has to have one for her 16th birthday. And each family has a couple of spares...
...like?-is a rare and accidental accomplishment. Television has become something to listen to from the next room. So has television news." Frank scorns "split screens and zooms and star bursts and insets and flip-overs" to give pedestrian words a visual interest, or the trite use of canned "truck shots down the aisles of supermarkets, wheat pouring into a boxcar, a slow zoom into the Capitol dome." He sighs for a past day when the camera was not so much the servant of the word...
...trying to touch the damn thing. There is something going on here. A lot of people are here and a lot are embarrassed. Some are curious, and some of us are disdainfully amused and aloof. That pose doesn't last long, though. A couple drove up in their pickup truck from Tennessee, six hours away. It's not surprising. It's a Friday night, and there probably isn't a whole hell of a lot going on in Knoxville for the weekend. The couple is in their forties. He's one of those incredibly wiry men and looks like...