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Among the numerous proposals before the legislature this year are suggestions for the extension of the rapid transit system serving the Boston metropolitan area. There can be little doubt today that some new facilities are needed if the city is to escape an asphalt death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Onward and Downward | 3/11/1959 | See Source »

...show's large-scale professionalism is a mixed blessing: it tends to put the packaging above the product, and to substitute mere method for point of view. Jean Kerr's daisies bloom more bountifully in suburban soil than in Broadway asphalt. And early bang-bang Westerns and supercolossal Near-Easterns have not only had their tales pulled all too often, but also time and television have made the nickelodeon a cherished relic like the model T, fitter for nostalgia than satire. Out of early films Goldilocks fetches up some indulgent laughs, but never any period lure. And Goldilocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Having finished a parody of decent domesticity, "Hum" and "Lo" embark on a parody of incest that takes them across the continent. They restlessly traverse the neon-lit landscape of filling stations, diners, small towns, automobiles and asphalt -the motel tundras where, if one pays, checks out by noon and turns in the key, one can voyage to the end of night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the End of Night | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...five adults in the car were killed at once; the girl died hours later. The charred body of Fayet Esrouer came to rest sitting on a cliffside rock, feet propped up as if still on brakes, and hands still clutching the wheel that was no longer there. On the asphalt of the highway, the motorcycle cop was sprawled dead. Behind him, two gendarmes in a jeep sat dazed and bleeding behind shattered shatterproof glass. Stopped still farther back, Sami Solh's limousine turned round and sped up the mountain road. The assassins made off. That evening fellow townsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death in the Canyon | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...fourths of the 200,000 bbl. daily consumption at an annual cost of $250 million-roughly equal to the current year's trade deficit. All the oil comes from a single area in Bahia, and Bahia crude is heavy and high in paraffin content, useful mostly for waxes, asphalt and fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Reappraising Petrobr | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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