Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, exhilirating) passages in recent memory involves Garp driving his children home from the movies. He has a habit of turning off the lights and coasting the family Volvo uphill and into his garage at night. Moving slowly, he rams the rear end of the station wagon where his college professor wife sits in the front seat giving a farewell blow job to her student lover. One of his sons loses an eye; the other is thrown into the sear and killed. Garp himself breaks his jaw, which prevents him from screaming when he sees that his wife...
...father, whom he could not remember, becomes in retrospect a heroic if desolate figure, "fond of lying out with dry cattle" - that is, women who had never given birth. The minor characters are equally memorable: Willalee Bookatee and his family, their black neighbors; the Jew, a peddler whose wagon was crammed with exciting goods; Mr. Willis, the stoic hired hand, who "moved as slow as grass growing" and once extracted a tooth from his own mouth with a pair of pliers. Even the animals - Daisy the mare; Sam the loyal dog: the two mules...
...other characters in the film, using instead a loosely constructed set of stereotypes and caricatures to fill up the screen. There are the bad old cops trying to bust the dope smokers, but the police are incredible bumblers who wind up arresting a group of nuns in a station wagon at the border and then telling tasteless priest-nun jokes. There are the druggies, who ingest anything not nailed down. One woman snorts a whole plateful of Ajax and loves it. There is the half-crazy Vietnam veteran who suddenly has a psychotic fit and attacks the Viet Cong hiding...
...newspapers hit the bricks. So Needle Parkers, like animal owners elsewhere in the city, are suffering a dearth of newsprint with which to do their dirty work. Last week one Manhattan matron and keeper of 22 cats sent an urgent bulletin to her sister in Massachusetts: Load the station wagon with Boston Globes and come quick...
...trucks for hauling the cut grain to the elevators, three service pickups loaded down with about $20,000 worth of spare parts (the Smalls do all their own repair work), three house trailers, a 1976 pickup and a beat-up four-door blue American Motors station wagon...