Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more political murder rocked El Salvador last week. Herbert Anaya Sanabria, 33, president of the nongovernmental Human Rights Commission, was about to drive two of his children to school last week when two men approached him. Armed with revolvers, they shot him dead, then fled in a pickup truck. President Jose Napoleon Duarte suggested that leftists may have fired the shots to sabotage peace talks, but most Salvadorans assumed that a right-wing death squad was responsible. Leftist rebels broke off peace talks on the ground that they would "contribute to the creation of false hopes." The rebels...
...Moscow also has its entrepreneurial legions: 12,000 officially registered "individual laborers" and more than 650 "cooperatives." While a policeman looks on benignly, commuters outside Kiev railway station examine the cloth shopping bags, plastic sandals and odds and ends of knitwear on display in a battered truck. Street artists on the Arbat compete for customers. Gorky Park is alive with the sound of plastic bird whistles, costing a relatively hefty 1.50 rubles...
...elderly landlady is brutally murdered in her San Francisco apartment by an intruder. A man who may have been drunk at the wheel is killed when his truck swerves off the road and tumbles over a bridge. One character dies of AIDS, another is disabled by Alzheimer's disease, and a family watches in horror as their house goes up in flames. Typical scenes from a trouble-filled TV fall? Yes, but there is something different about this litany of prime-time woes. These are the comedies, folks...
...line between comedy and drama. Set in a bustling New Orleans restaurant, the series at the outset looked like a routine ensemble sitcom in the Cheers mode, but it has grown increasingly audacious and appealing. In one episode, the family of a man killed at the wheel of his truck threatens to sue the restaurant for serving him too many drinks; a white lawyer travels into the black ghetto to discover that the victim actually committed suicide. In another show, Frank (Tim Reid) is courted by a high-class black men's club, which practices its own form of race...
...They tend to be the kind of men, and women, who use Boraxo to get their hands clean after a hard day's work. Often they work at physically demanding jobs, and they only appreciate sports that are physically demanding, like arm wrestling. They are big-bellied, long-haul truck drivers in dark blue Levi's and cowboy boots; gym owners in muscle T shirts; car mechanics in soiled khaki uniforms; skinny blond boys who work as bag boys at Publix; and occasionally they are pretty, olive-skinned women, like Teresa Taglione, with dangling gold earrings, blow-dried hair...