Word: enough
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ALTHOUGH IT MAY BE HARD TO REMEMBER in this age of mass-marketed commodity entertainment, the history of American music is constellated with real characters, do-it-yourselfers who couldn't stop asking "What if..." and who had the drive - and thick enough skins - to follow through on their hunches. From the basements and garages of the heartland came the electric guitar, the electric bass, the five-string banjo, the multitrack tape recorder and the pedal steel guitar. Perhaps it's our penchant for excess that leads us to make it louder, faster, different - especially different - and not everyone...
Half an hour later the cars stopped outside, just long enough for me to relieve one of the drivers and continue on our way. Though our ultimate destination was North Dakota, we took off to the south, just down to the Oregon border. (Back-hitting all 48 contiguous states calls for a rather circuitous route.) But after a tour of the Pacific coastline, we finally headed East...
...first 12 hours went smoothly, and the excitement of driving a Carrera 4 in the land of high speed limits and no cops was enough to keep me alert. But as night fell and a heavy fog rolled in, my body started calling out for rest. I was grateful to switch with my co-driver, Linda, and to get a few hours' rest, but woke abruptly when Linda opened the window to keep herself awake...
...speed Carrera 4 proved to be worth its $72,000 base price, gripping the curves and accelerating through 300 horsepower--enough to blow past any car in our way, though more than a few tried to put up a fight...
...Palm beach's butterfly ballot have dropped off to nothing.) Gore's people continue to loudly push not for litigation, not for "partisan politics," but merely that all the votes be counted. So far, polls still show Americans are willing to wait. (And certainly the markets were cheerful enough Tuesday...