Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Calif., company, is an electronic road map that calculates position by means of dead reckoning. Data from a solid-state compass installed in the vehicle's roof and from sensors mounted on its wheels are processed by a computer in the trunk and displayed on a dashboard screen. The car's position is represented as a fixed triangle; the map, showing a web of streets and avenues, scrolls down as the car moves forward and rotates sideways when it turns...
...peak of its financial might, Texaco was the most profitable oil company in the U.S. and one of the best known. Millions of Americans watched the Texaco Star Theater television show, featuring Milton Berle, and a decade later any child could sing the jingle "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star." With exploration, refining and retail operations from Abilene to Aberdeen, the company has generated huge wealth and no small amount of controversy in its 86-year history...
...Chicago skyscraper rises on stage right, with the Chrysler Building on stage left. The main set, a luxury sleeping car on the Chicago-New York run, circa 1930, comes together in between...
...actors bask momentarily in the applause. And then, almost before they have left the stage, the crew swarms over the set. A starry sky gets folded up and tucked into a basket. The sleeping-car set begins to tremble under the ratchetting of half a dozen socket wrenches and quickly comes apart in 40 pieces. Someone shouts, "Hit it!" And a dozen men bully a light rack onto a truck, wheels humming and clattering up the aluminum ramp...
...after. When his pictures from those trips began appearing in photography magazines and exhibits, the most talked about featured a cool view of the relationship between people and nature: a suburban street in California after a flash flood; a runaway elephant that has collapsed near a sheriff's car in Washington State; a herd of beached sperm whales viewed from so far away that a few seem no bigger than commas, bereft bits of creation in a panoramic beachscape...