Word: truck
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WERE SOON SURE he knows when he appears at the end of the movie with a new truck for the "Caravana," red-light-district-on-wheels, complete with a trio of dancing girls and a huge neon hand flashing the finger at three second intervals. Whether dancing or sizing up her latest admirer, Fariah displays a weary amusement and a matter-of-fact satisfaction in her own eroticism that reminds us strangely of an equatorial Wife of Bath, a figure of all womanhood. And young moderns will appreciate the Femme fatale's Cheilike pink cat's-eye sunglasses. In both...
Arriving in Plains, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter walked through a chill drizzle as some 3,500 Georgians shouted a welcome. Pale and tired, the two nevertheless smiled happily. Carter clambered atop a flatbed truck and announced that every one of the 52 was alive, was well, and was free. Amid cheers and tears, Carter wiped away a few of his own, before declaring: "They are hostages no more, they are prisoners no more, and they are coming back to this land we all love...
...Francisco Bay area, where there are more than 125 of the clubs, prospective two-steppers can dial a special number (652-2792) to find out where the action is. Some newcomers are lured to Detroit's Urban Cowboy, the most successful C&W spread in Michigan, by truck drivers who tout its charms on their CBs. The Boston area, with a full-time AM country-music station, has about 30 clubs offering C&W entertainment. Mr. McNasty's, a former gay leather bar in Kenmore Square that is now the city's only seven-night-a-week...
...last year, while the rental fees on dumpsters, which are large trash bins used at construction sites, almost trebled to $72 a month during the same period. But the two entrepreneurs found ways to cut costs. One gambit was to drive their 1958 International truck across the Mexican border to buy gasoline in Tijuana...
Charles Jackson, a Manhattan journalist, swore off after wartime accidents in which he hurtled in a Jeep against the wall of a crowded Army orderly room and later slammed a 2½-ton truck through the imposing Sterling Gate at Fort Sill, Okla. ("There wasn't enough left of it to make matchsticks.") Nowadays he rides splendidly in the back seat of the family Buick, while his wife does the driving...