Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenneth Tynan once described the critic as a backseat driver who knows the way but can't drive a car. Unfortunately his definition does not explain someone like Susan Sontag--a critic with no sense of direction...
...people suffered no pressures, were allowed to work freely for the most part. Perhaps the worst experience they encountered was that old Balkan bugaboo of night driving with the lights now off, now on. The trick is to switch the lights off and use those of the approaching car. Trouble is that the approaching car is playing the same game and, as Rademaekers recalls, "cars roll blindly at each other for sickening seconds before flicking their lights on again...
...Baby or Car?" But if Rumania brings up the rear in cultural freedom, it is nonetheless surging forward economically. With a growth rate of 13% annually, Rumania runs well ahead of the others, and even when measured by the solid standard of gross national product, it ranks fourth of seven: behind East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, but ahead of Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria. In order to keep hopping on its canny leap forward, Ceausescu's regime relies on an abundance of natural resources-oil and timber, coal and untapped rural labor reserves. In other European countries, the supply...
...Financier Mossler's money. Aggrieved over their lurid affair, Mossler allegedly planned a divorce that would have cut off their income and her potential inheritance. To avoid that disaster, argued Gerstein, Mel jetted over from Houston to Miami one June day in 1964, jumped into a white car provided by Candy, drove to a bar near Mossler's Key Biscayne home and picked up a king-sized Coke bottle. At the odd hour of 1 a.m., Candy took her children out for a drive to mail some letters, suffered a migraine headache and went to a hospital, where...
...trial which followed, Leary centered his defense around discrepancies in the amount of marijuana discovered. While the prosecution contended in the indictment that three ounces had been found, a government witness said that Miss Leary carried only 11 grams and the total amount found in the car was less than one-half ounce...