Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back in 1933, an Elkharter (Elkhartian? Elkhartonian?) named Wilbur Schult goes to the World's Fair and sees Ray Gilkison of Terre Haute with a homemade trailer and figures he can top it. So he starts a business, drawing other copycats and a support industry. Then in 1962 along comes Corson, who gets a job on an RV assembly line, moves into sales and then calls brothers Claude and Keith. Guess what? he says. We can do better...
They're up industry-wide, 11.6% in the first quarter, to their highest level in 20 years. People want bigger and better RVs, says Corson, who sells everything from a $3,500 folding trailer to a $160,000 motor home the size of the Love Boat. They want AC, microwave, satellite dishes, PC stations, hydraulic slide-outs to expand room size when parked. If Coachmen could figure out how to make one with a back lawn, some Joe's going to buy the damn thing and mow it while Ethel does 65 on the interstate...
...putting my child in an underfunded public school system." If he can't get his new school up and running, says Irving, "I'm moving out of here." And he's avoiding the local press "because I don't want to make my child a target of trailer-park envy." Irving, by the way, is a liberal Democrat. But in Vermont, it seems, the whole world is being turned upside down...
Stately, plump Cyberswine gazes out across a cartoon world, ready to kick some serious toon butt. Cyberswine is both the name and the protagonist of a full-length animated movie, "Part machine. Part cop. Full boar," according to the trailer. You won't find it (him) on film, though--the movie is 100% digital bits, burned onto CD-ROMS and downloadable from the Net, and now showing at a computer near...
...only place he could find privacy: sticking his head in the family oven. Later an American serviceman arranged for a sex-change operation (a botched one, leaving just an "angry inch" of scar tissue) so the two could marry and emigrate to America. Hedwig wound up in a trailer park in Kansas, where her G.I. abandoned her. Then she met Tommy Gnosis, a rock singer whom she helped turn into a superstar, but not before he had dumped her too. Now all that's left for Hedwig is to tell her life story in a confessional cabaret show, which...