Word: asphalting
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...track is a series of tight, tough curves-carrousels, S's, hairpins and hard rights and lefts-30 in all, with only 80 meters of straightaway in the whole labyrinth. Though the car can seldom reach 40 m.p.h., to the driver, with eyes only three feet above the asphalt, the sensation, if not the speed, is supersonic. He is competing with the clock. As he crosses the finish line, his time is shown in lighted, 2-ft.-high digital figures. First time around it may be a humiliating 98.46 sec. After a few more heart-in-mouth laps...
Some mingles later they were gone and the audience filed out into the street. They left without autographs or cast albums, without any catchy show tunes on their breath. No sound or sight or smell distinguished them from the rest of the night-lifers stolling along the asphalt and concrete called Tremont and Boylston. Except they knew and felt, and maybe even almost smelt, more of that hidden earth below than anyone this side of Fenway Park...
...foot road with no curbing. He'd compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt and 1½ inches of topping and Belgian block curbing." The result of these and other requirements is that an $8,000 lot may cost another $8,000 to develop, v. $4,000 six years ago. Says Schoeck: "The cost had doubled before the house went...
...strap in and start the car. You shift upward, first, second, third, fourth and then down. Gas. Clutch. Shift. Now gas, clutch, gas again. Downshift. You are learning how to double-clutch. You are learning to control a car. You cease to hear the swallows. Your universe becomes an asphalt strip. It will be afternoon before Couture regards you as competent to corner in a Formula Ford...
...show, repeated tirelessly before different audiences, underscores both her strengths and weaknesses. She has instant recognition and a kind of asphalt glamour unmatched by any of her male adversaries in the race. She is also highly credible to ordinary voters, many of whom seem ready for a tough voice. That same message, however, makes her suspect among those who fear a return to the city's bad old days of openhanded spending on social services, consider her leftish, and point to her lack of administrative experience. And, just below the surface of her current relatively controlled persona, lurks...