roar

This brutally efficient five-song playlist serves as a soundtrack for when you want to leave your house, hurry to an on-ramp, roar down a short stretch of highway, and abruptly take the next exit to your extremely nearby destination.

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When I was a little kid, I aspired to become a dinosaur when I grew up. The idea seemed practical at the time.

I could roar loudly, I liked eating and I heard dinosaurs had a great pension. Of course, years later when I was in high school, I discovered that becoming a dinosaur was not biologically possible or even an actual profession, save for dressing up like Barney at birthday parties.

World War II veteran and author Norman Mailer, who died Saturday at 84, is remembered for his many enduring works.

One shows Mailer in an unusually unguarded moment after hearing a roar while running on a dark road in Africa.