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...should have a pretty good idea whether the bike or car will still be at work in 100 years. Surely when God tells us to line up for the next century, he'll be preparing us for a long bike ride...
...freeze-framing of physical gestures into their component parts traps and frees the subject. The stop-motion of Denise's bike ride locks her into a string of contortions but also celebrates her joy in movement. It prolongs and accents the pain of a woman's beating on a street corner but softens the blows by dissecting and punctuating them-turning the series of hurt faces into studied caricatures. Paul's slow-motion salutory kiss-which finally reaches his daughter's cheek-becomes at once a tortured eternity and a muscle spasm which lands like a hammer. It is clear...
...family, who had the heated swimming pool. Charles, his sister Anne and brothers Andrew and Edward were frequently invited over. The Prince helped Diana learn to swim when he was in his late teens and she was a little girl of five or six. Still athletic, Diana likes to bike and ski. She dresses casually and exudes a born-to-the-country-life look. Recently, when asked how she sees herself, she replied: "Well, I'm a normal person, hopefully, who loves life." Friends say she takes her kindergarten teaching job seriously...
...work on bicycles on any given day, and Washington hopes that by 1985 as many as 2.5 million will be on the streets, saving as many as 77,000 bbl. of oil a day. OPEC and the huge American self-regard coincided to persuade millions of Americans that the bike makes both financial and cardiovascular sense...
...aura of childishness, of unseriousness. They still await the mass discovery that they are in fact splendidly functional. They will never replace cars, but they can provide quick, superior transportation for great numbers of people daily over short distances, at tremendous savings in fossil fuels and breathable air. The bike rider also knows that riding one as the day begins is a brief pure aubade of exertion and contemplation. Why else would cyclists risk it? Then, too, subconsciously, the bicyclist may be engaged in a long-term Darwinian wager: In 100 years, which mechanism will still be at work...