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...political boss Tom Pendergast, when Kansas City thrived on a depression economy of gambling, prostitution, and bootleg booze. Ricker establishes early on the pointlessness of trying to recapture that milieu: Big Joe Turner sings "I was standing on the corner of 18th and Vine," and he shows us the barren parking lot that now occupies this intersection, once crowded with nightspots. He succeeds in capturing the unique camraderie that still exists among the men who made the Kansas City sound nearly 50 years...
Cars driven by boiling drivers roll on dusty highways across brown and barren land, from one barren city to another. They crawl on the yawning landscape of I-90, looking to flatten turtles or to veer toward hitchhikers to "pump their blood a bit." They roll on the flatlands of South Dakota, the no-man's-land of the hitchhiker who ducks the graceful parabola of a flying bottle and faces a more than likely prospect of a night on the prairie...
...cruised at 4100 feet. He was a geologist at the University of Cincinnati and pointed out the geological characteristics of eastern Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota. His expertise at pointing out the finer points of the brown and barren land exemplified the extraordinary character of pilots who pick up riders. Like all kind hearted pilots he flew with a placid grin and talked on topics ranging from the future of Teng Hsio-ping to the amount of coal in South Dakota. He was one of the elite of American travelers, who moved not necessarily to see places but to feel...
...from the south. Through the 60-mile Bolan Pass in the Brahui mountains they come, nomadic families with their camels, sheep, donkeys, the beasts of burden laden with all their possessions. They march by day and camp at sundown while the animals graze on the stony, barren soil. Many will settle around Quetta for the summer: raising sheep, taking day jobs weeding the cultivated fields in the area...
Wasteful as it may have been, his prodigality and womanizing proclivities entertain. For the latter he was notorious. Father of a dozen bastards and no legitimate children, he was never faithful to his barren wife, but always kind, angrily rejecting suggestions that he divorce her. Charles told censorious Bishop Burnet that he was convinced God would never damn a man "for allowing himself a little pleasure." A modern point of view, and an appealing one; we find it difficult to condemn the indolent hedonism of Charles II's later years, even though it seems he allowed himself more than...