Word: strap
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...strangely believable. Four midwestern kids head for Los Angeles for the conventional reasons-they find nearly instantaneous fame and fortune, but at the price of orgies, perversions, drug addiction and other box-office attractions. Though stunned by a culture they are not ready to understand ("I'd like to strap you on," is repeated in three conversations, each time to the same dumbfounded guy.) somehow things work...
...Tony went out with the teacher's daughter, and the tire blew out in Pierce Lane and he had to call old Mrs. Hirsch and tell her that he was stuck out on the darkest lane in Missouri with her daughter, who just happened to have broken her bra strap at a dance-and it wasn't a lie either, she had, but he caught hell for the rest of the year." The speaker begins to laugh and stares into his beer glass for a moment. "Yeah, Tony was a really good ball-player. But he could never move...
...center of the pool, someone is beating on a tin can, and everyone links arms and dances in a circle. A boy hoists a naked girl to his shoulders and everyone cheers, watching her bob up and down. An older man wearing a jock strap wades serenely...
...riques (cabin lifts), garlanded with heated swimming pools, bedecked with strobe-lighted discotheques, the swinging new French resorts have an allure of adventure and practicality all their own. How many ski resorts offer, as La Plagne does, four nightclubs and a Chinese restaurant? Where else can a skier strap on his skis at his front door and gain the lift in a few turns, as he can in Les Arcs or Avoriaz? Such elegant little touches drew more than 1,500,000 skiers and après-ski devotees to the French Alps this season...