Word: blacktopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parting Complaint. The last big item on the agenda was roads. Maggie and Archie Stokes live on a road that "has been ready for blacktop for two years." Archie moved that $5,000 be allotted for blacktopping this year. The motion was voted down when it was explained that $5,000 would pave only about 150 ft. Mac Moody, an elderly town worker, hiked his leather hat back on his head and complained that "the state just don't want to spend money on little roads." Then he strode outside...
...land is richer through the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, euphimisms for preserves for recreational vehicles. Fecund beasts, they spill across the blacktop in strained, sluggish twists, painting darkly on the snow-rimmed shoulders...
Peckinpah and Scenarist Rudolph Wurlitzer (Two Lane Blacktop) transform Garrett and the Kid into the kind of uneasy antagonists who test and challenge each other with every inflection. Garrett and the Kid have become estranged by ungovernable coincidence, made enemies by the intervention of impersonal circumstances...
Kerouac, the author of On the Road, the Jack that journalism built into the king of the Beat Generation and the Zen terror of the transcontinental blacktop, sat passively in the passenger's seat and watched his life, reflected in the American landscape, go by like so many flaking Burma Shave signs. "I'm doomed to these universal watchfulnesses," he wrote, though not as effortlessly as Kerouac readers were once led to believe. Author Charters dispels the popular misconception that On the Road leaped spontaneously out of Kerouac's head and onto the 120-ft. roll...
...movie is a patchwork of pop culture - its title derived from a Tim Buckley tune, its sound track laden with song fragments and snippets of news broadcasts, its pastel photography reminiscent of countless TV commercials. Monte Hellman, director of Two-Lane Blacktop, even appears in a cameo role. All this does not amount to much more than another episode of Sunset Strip angst, but there are reassuring indications throughout that Director James Frawley and Scenarist Floyd Mutrux are capable of better work...