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[23] The story "Greasy Lake", whose title and epigraph are borrowed from Bruce Springsteen, tells the story of a group of wannabe “bad” kids who come to the lake hoping to "smoke pot, howl at the stars, and savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll" but find themselves facing a vicious thug who drives the main character into ...
Greasy Lake is a 1988 American short drama film based on the short story "Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle. It was directed by Damian Harris and stars Eric Stoltz and James Spader . Plot
The other was an unnamed swampy lake near Garden State Parkway exit 88. [6] However, "greasers" is the local slang term for the homeless, used by Springsteen in the second verse of another favorite, "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), and "Greasy Lake", other locals insist, was near Howell, New Jersey, where people bathed and washed dishes.
Greasy Lake & Other Stories (1985) If the River Was Whiskey (1989) Without a Hero (1994) T.C. Boyle Stories (1998), compiles four earlier volumes of short fiction plus seven previously uncollected stories; After The Plague (2001) Tooth and Claw (2005) The Human Fly (2005), previously published stories collected as young adult literature
John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) [1] was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns.
Gregory Stuart Lake (10 November 1947 – 7 December 2016) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter.
Greasy pole, grease pole, or greased pole refers to a tall pole that has been made slippery with grease or other lubricants and thus difficult to grip. More specifically, it is the name of several events that involve staying on, climbing up, walking over or otherwise traversing such a pole.
Great Slave Lake [1] [a] is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), [2] and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area. It is 469 km (291 mi) long and 20 to 203 km (12 to 126 mi) wide. [3]