Word: sloshing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memory says, like an old MG-TC or Porsche Speedster. Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...
...Washington the overlap of bicyclists and Pentagon-based joggers has turned the Arlington Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River into an anger zone. Last month bikers were banned from hiking trails in California's Santa Monica mountains. In St. Louis, where a motorist has been known to slosh a bucket of water on a cyclist in cold weather, someone sprinkled tacks on the route of a Labor Day cycle tour and flattened the tires of some 40 bikes. Motorist-biker tensions around St. Louis grew high last month after Bicyclist John S. Reif Jr., 22, a nationally ranked triathlete...
Hungry drivers gobble breakfast, often an Egg McMuffin, from Styrofoam cartons and slurp coffee from no-slosh mugs. Others balance checkbooks, do crossword puzzles and dictate letters and grocery lists into pocket-size tape recorders. Hot summer weekends offer an opportunity for passengers to take partial charge of the car. Inching along to the approach to the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and Manhattan, occupants of cars without air conditioning who face delays of more than an hour hold the doors open for a little circulation...
...society Chronicler Lucius Beebe and his friend Charles Clegg, members of the crushed- velvet school of design. The rococo trappings, now somewhat tattered, include gold-colored silk curtains, an oil painting on the ceiling copied from the Sistine Chapel and a white Venetian marble fireplace. Passengers who wish to slosh champagne on the open rear platform and watch the world whiz by can do so for a trifling $2,000 a day (drinks included...
...trouble catching attention. But opening night is a production unto itself, and even when the drag queens hit the stage you can't help but wonder if the real action isn't happening somewhere in your peripheral vision. Surely there was drama enough in the pre-curtain champagne slosh on the building's top floor. Middle-aged men peered eagerly at younger females, while college men gazed longingly at older women. The lines were vintage prep--"It was only a man-made beach, but the temperature's been great all week, in the seventies and eighties." Less seasoned spectators drank...