Word: handlebar
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Easy Rider is directed in consummately trippy fashion by Hopper, who once had an intensely hip handlebar mustache before he went on to portray drunks and psychopaths in 80s films. He and Fonda virtually define late 60s cool here, at once aloof (or stoned) and utterly self-righteous. Yet despite the absurdity of their ideas and appearance, the freaks in this film do seem to be free, if only in a very misguided way, and seem infinitely preferable to the straight-laced types they combat. It's hard to describe a film in which every other word...
...Handlebar Hedonists, to whom Ragbrai is a week-long holiday on spokes, a beer-guzzling and mate-catching challenge. On both scores, they seemed to make out quite well...
...morning a handlebar car was ready, too small a target for the Japanese artillery on the north bank of the Yellow River to shoot at. And thus, bundled in a soldier's padded robe, seated in the cold wind on an open pump-car, I traveled 30 miles that day as if I were a general reviewing his troops. But I was reviewing a famine...
...energy-saving advantage that Rösrath has over Hinsdale is that the German suburb, unlike the American, has conveniently located shopping areas. An everyday sight is a housewife pedaling her bicycle home from the supermarket, straining to see over the top of grocery bags stuffed into the handlebar basket. Rösrath teen-agers can get where they have to go on bicycles or mopeds-bikes powered by a small, auxiliary motor that can cover 200 miles or so on a gallon of gas. There is no compulsion for adults to go into Cologne in search of entertainment. Rosrath...
Fingers had arrived on the scene in the fifth inning--a bit early for him. Manager Alvin Dark usually likes to wait until the seventh or so before summoning the man with the handlebar moustache. But the way the Red Sox were spraying base hits around this classic, old ballyard, Dark felt obliged to go with his best relief arm early...