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American popular culture has always beheld the automobile with great reverence. Think of the exhilarating car chase scene in Bullitt or pop song homages like the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe." Today, car companies pay to have their latest sleek models wrecked up in blockbusters. The daredevil protagonist tears through incredibly busy traffic and emerges unscathed, while the villain's car always ends up in either an accident or a heap of manure. Although a BMW will never be a good substitute for an Aston Martin, it is crucial to remember that man's (and I do mean...
...Fiona Banner, Sylvie Fleury and Richard Prince treat the hot rod following the well-established Pop Art tradition of reusing familiar icons and images. Banner uses written text in the form of "wordscapes" in "Car Chases" (1998.) She describes the chase scenes in French Connection and Bullitt and, as her paragraph progresses, she gradually decreases the spacing between the red words for an effect of velocity and acceleration. The blurred-up effect towards the bottom of each piece gives you a feel of the rush of a hot rod screaming by and definitely disrupts the usual static nature of written...
...Hayes began running the Bullitt Foundation, an endowment in Seattle that funds green projects in the Pacific Northwest. But the coming of the new millennium brought another test: take Earth Day to new heights in 2000. Besides the rallies, concerts, seminars and TV shows, Hayes plans to use a magic wand he didn't have in 1970 or 1990: the Internet. Through e-mail, websites and live Web events, Earth Day participants will be globally linked as never before. "Earth Day is for the environment what Martin Luther King Day is for civil rights," Hayes says. "We know what...
...telephone in Franklin Roosevelt's bedroom at the White House rang at 2:50 a.m. on the first day of September. In more ways than one it was a ghastly hour; but the operators knew they must ring. Ambassador Bill Bullitt was calling from Paris. Mr. Bullitt told Mr. Roosevelt that World War II had begun. Adolf Hitler's bombing planes were dropping death all over Poland...
...offered a part in the Sharon Stone movie The Quick and the Dead--a highly coveted job for an actor still sleeping on a friend's couch. But Damon didn't like the script and wanted to pass. "You know what I did last night? I watched Bullitt," he remembers telling his agents. "Robert Duvall drives a cab in that movie, and he has, like, four lines, but he was totally believable and he was really good and at the end of the day, he was in Bullitt. He's in all these great movies because he doesn...