Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...your Dodge Caravan, making stops at refineries, distribution networks and retailers before winding up in the gas tank. By then, U.S. consumers could be facing a new energy crisis - how to keep warm this winter with heating oil and natural gas prices on the rise - that will make this summer's vacation frustrations a distant memory...
...Purim b) the summer Solstice c) the DVD release of This Is Spinal Tap d) Macy's semi-annual white sale...
DRIVING DANGER Summer can be the most dangerous time for a road trip, according to a new survey by progressive.com an insurance website. Of those questioned, 57% said they were more likely to drive home while overtired from a summer getaway than at other times of the year. (Each year 71,000 are injured in drowsy-driving accidents.) And 53% of drivers admitted they were more likely to break a traffic law if caught in summer traffic...
...trailer for herself. Like the ads for a summer action flick, her public persona promises slick, sweaty thrills: At the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards she wore a tiny purple pastie over her otherwise exposed left breast; in the latest Vibe she poses like a plastic blow-up doll, her lips parted suggestively to form a moist pink oval. Unfortunately, behind the getups and the come-ons, the reality is grim: Lil' Kim's new rap album, Notorious KIM (Queen Bee/Undeas/Atlantic), is a bomb. It's the Battlefield Earth of this summer's rap albums...
...still and golden. The summer trees are fat with their foliage. On Fourth of July weekend, I am rereading David Reynolds' splendid book "Walt Whitman's America" (1995). It gives me, among other things, a sense of reassuring continuity. We need the past - good, bad, mythic, squalid - as a counterweight. It is sometimes hilarious to see what a mess - embroiled, quotidian, contemporary - the American past actually...