Word: weekend
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Villages on Missouri's Black River like Lesterville and Centerville used to be oases of tranquillity, the destination of weekend canoeists, tube floaters and fishermen. No longer. All too often the solitude of the Ozarks wilderness is shattered these days by the whine and rumble of powerful engines. The river's banks are littered with mountains of discarded beer cans, used Pampers and empty motor-oil cans. A steady stream of pickup trucks rolls through village streets hauling trailers loaded with all-terrain vehicles, heading for the river's edge. Locals call it "the Invasion...
...Memorial Day weekend the invaders descended with a vengeance. Each day some 250 ATVs gathered on a stretch of the Black River near Centerville, a wide-open area of gravel bars and shallow water. The weekend warriors jousted at one another with their three- and four-wheel vehicles, running up and down the riverbed with abandon. As some ATV riders sat chugging beer on the bank, cohorts roared past at breakneck speeds, narrowly missing other vehicles. Music blasted from portable radios and car stereos, commingling with the whoops of riders and the growl of unmuffled engines. The air stank...
...confrontational staging and his absurdist revisions of classic plays either inventive or infuriating, but the shows got people talking, even people who hadn't seen them. That is no small achievement, considering that most campus theater productions are seen by few and forgotten by most after their two-weekend runs...
...Yale University alumnus was charged with third-degree arson and released on $50,000 bail Monday after allegedly setting fire last weekend to a wooden shanty built by Yale undergraduates to protest Yale's investment in companies doing business in South Africa...
Bracey's lawyer and college roommate, Douglas R. Daniels, would not speculate as to Bracey's possible motives for the alleged crime. But he did say that, "A number of alumni expressed displeasure" at the shanty throughout Yale's reunion weekend...