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...will do to us," says Wines. An unsettling view of what Wines calls "the American mobilized experience" is offered in the firm's Ghost Parking Lot at the Hamden Plaza shopping center in Hamden, Conn.: a row of 20 automobiles submerged to varying depths under a layer of asphalt...
...this vantage he decodes its symbols and looks down at variations in the lower stratas. Driveways, of all things, strike him with deep significance. Curved is preferred over straight because more land is used, suggesting that the owner has plenty to spare. Gravel, particularly if it is beige, surpasses asphalt because it is more difficult to maintain...
...driver is a high-risk passenger who needs guts as much as skill to command a vehicle packing 2,500 h.p. and moving at 250 m.p.h. with a force of 3 g's. In competition with a pack of cynical road jockeys) Muldowney proved herself an astronaut of asphalt-a woman with the right stuff...
Estimates as to how much the bid rigging costs the public vary widely. Representatives of at least one trade group, the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), have met with Justice Department officials to voice concern that the scope of the investigation might end up crippling the nation's road-building industry. Says NAPA President John Gray: "We felt this was overkill." But Joseph Welsch, inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Department, says a reliable rule of thumb is that "rigged bids cost taxpayers about 15% more than unrigged bids," a margin of greed that could add up to hundreds...
...seems that almost everyone and everything is conspiring to finish them off. One villain is rising real estate values, which make all that asphalt-covered acreage too expensive to use only at night; a shopping center or housing development can be more profitable. Another culprit is cable TV, particularly the first-run films shown on such pay systems as HBO and Showtime. One of the major appeals of the drive-in was that the whole family, from Grandpa to Baby Sis, could pile into a car, taking with them food, pillows and blankets, and see a double feature surrounded...