Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will it all end serenely? Of course not. Will Leo resurface, maybe to have another birthday party with Pat and Morgani, all bivouacking in their tiny van parked at a curb in Austin, living happily ever after or until arrested for loitering, whichever comes first? Hope...
...Trang and an excursion to the former French hill station of Dalat. All this for $2,000, including round-trip airfare from San Francisco. The two-week tour ($3,000) adds stops at Danang, Hue, Hanoi, Haiphong and Ha Long Bay. Guides and transportation in a cramped van are part of the package, along with overnight accommodations in Manila...
...took to his preparation like Van Brocklin. "Studying films, I started out thinking what I would do if I were still the coach; I've stopped that." But his fascination with strategy is unending. "Getting ready gives me an excuse to be nosy, to go out to practice and see what's going on. If I say a guy's a good player, I don't want to have read that or been told that. I want to know...
...televisions and a VCR -- he misses the strangers on the trains he used to subsidize single-handed. "But then, a train can't veer off the track," he says. "I love the small country towns and the cafes. It's fun going to the Mexican restaurant in Van Horn, Texas. The guy's wife is the cook." Showing why he usually avoids fancy restaurants, Madden surveys the menu at one, declares, "Nothing here looks like food," and orders a cheeseburger. "On occasion, I've been over 300 lbs.," he confesses, though he is happiest when he is carrying...
...like some musical Rip Van Winkle, a 19th century man awoke today in a concert hall or an opera house after decades of slumber, he would find that things had hardly changed. Stirring to life in his seat, he would pick up the comforting strains of a Beethoven symphony. Blinking his eyes in the theater's darkness, he would notice the familiar sets of a Verdi opera. Only after he stumbled to his feet at the end of the program and sought out his horse and carriage would he learn that, for the rest of the world, time had indeed...