Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world mark in the 50. With the 4 X 100 medley relay, which was to be the last race of his career, still to come, he had a bronze, a silver and four golds. When he returns to California, he wants to build a camper on a used pickup truck he owns and travel around the U.S. "I've seen pools all over the world," he said, "but not much else...
Others interview, Studs Terkel elicits. Under the influence of his discerning eye and disarming tongue, truck drivers and professors, black activists and Klan members, entertainers and executives yield their secret griefs and their private truths. It is appropriate that in his film debut -- in John Sayles' Eight Men Out -- Terkel plays one of the first journalists to scent the World Series...
...while Tyler is not a stylistic innovator, she has an eye for rupture, for the moment where life becomes a little strange, a little alien. At one point in the journey to the funeral, Maggie and Ira argue and he literally leaves her behind at a truck stop. At that moment, Maggie sees the possibilty for flight, for change. She imagines starting over again, reinventing her life. When Ira comes back to her it's both a relief and a disappointment. Maggie goes on as usual, having confronted the possibility of a truly independent life...
...Blacks just aren't fit to be President," said his companion, another truck driver from Tennessee. "Besides," he added, "someone would shoot him anyway...
...home region in southeast China, Xueliang organized a team of 13 students to walk throughout remote areas of the mainland to convey the slogans and politics of Mao. During the winter, the group trudged through deep snow and refused rides offered by passing military truck to show sacrifice for their cause, Xueliang said...