Word: blacktopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...G.T.O. in Two-Lane Blacktop...
Director Monte Hellman has taken this kind of chopped and channeled mythology and turned it into an American pop epic called Two-Lane Blacktop. The film is immaculately crafted, funny and quite beautiful, resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness. There are extended pauses and dialogue exchanges full of deliberate paradox. Few film makers have dealt so well or so subtly with the American landscape. Not a single frame in the film is wasted. Even the small touches-the languid tension while refueling at a back-country gas station or the piercing sound of an ignition buzzer-have...
Full Velocity. Two-Lane Blacktop does suffer from a certain overfamiliarity. After Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and their sundry imitators, the American highway as a metaphor has become a pretty well-traveled route. But Two-Lane Blacktop is full of its own surprises. Rock Stars James Taylor and Dennis Wilson are fine as the Driver and the Mechanic: Taylor's gaunt face and haunted eyes and Wilson's strong, oblique presence suit Hellman's purposes perfectly...
...other vehicles were blocked outside town by fallen-tree barricades and 4-ft. ditches dug across the blacktop road. The soldiers managed to shoot down about 50 Bengalis before they were overpowered and hacked to death by peasants. A few soldiers escaped but were later captured and killed...
...already worrying about the glowing threat. The area's five major observatories-including Kitt Peak, which expects to unveil a 150-in. telescope next year-recently petitioned the town fathers to shield and filter all mercury-vapor street lamps, ban all but essential searchlights, and pave roads with blacktop instead of lighter, reflective concrete. Aware of the observatories' contributions to the local economy, the Tucson councilmen agreed to consider the requests...