Word: skateboards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin commercials are among an outpouring of ads in which Western businesses seem to be welcoming Eastern Europe into the capitalist world. A Shearson Lehman Hutton commercial shows Slavic women wearing U.S. running shoes and a teenager riding a skateboard past a hammer-and-sickle sculpture. The tactics have even been adopted by the other side: one of the products to extol improved East-West relations in its ads is Stolichnaya, the Russian vodka...
...occasion, Hazelwood and Laraway got so drunk that they made believe Laraway's convertible Volkswagen was a skateboard. Driving down a steep road, they switched off the engine, leaped into the back and shifted their weight to try to steer the vehicle. During yet another inebriated escapade, Laraway's speeding car flipped over completely on a Long Island highway but landed on ! its wheels. Only later did they notice that the car's backseat was missing...
...family train. Across the aisle three children were playing Musical Laps on various amply lapped mother-like figures who chatted away, absentmindedly patting the playing children. Across from them were two fifteen-year-old skateboard kids, whose disdainful sneers showed how much they secretly missed playing on Mommy's lap. A skull-painted board with wheels is a lousy substitute...
There are now an estimated 20 million riders hitting the decks. Skateboarders speed and rumble all around the Picasso sculpture in downtown Chicago. They come from as far away as Scotland to maneuver Milwaukee's Turf Skateboard Park. Georgia's Savannah Slamma is an annual springtime ritual for boarders to show their stuff. Says Scott Oster, 18, a pro skater out of Los Angeles: "Kids are ripping all over...
Powell believes the new boom in boards occurred because everyone recognizes the "legitimacy of the street terrain." Longtime Skateboarder Thatcher speaks to a deeper appeal: "The skater doesn't have to rely on anybody or anything to do his sport. He doesn't need a wave, a ski slope or a team, and he likes it that way." The police, of course, do not, and the buoyant banditry of skateboarding can lead the law a merry chase. "To skateboard you've got to be aggressive, and you've got to be a little crazy," says Roger Mullen, 17, of Ventura...