Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give you an example of the kind of agonizing I am talking about, how unnecessary and irrelevant it is. I happen to drive a sports car. When I first started working in the South ten years ago, I knew that I couldn't go with that sports car into some of these communities because I had decided that that would interfere with my relationship with these people. Well, it took me a long time to feel free enough to get to know some of these children well enough so that they could visit us in our home...
...last year's 500 Parnelli Jones came within 2 1/2 laps of victory before his gearbox broke down. The rules makers, dismayed at the ease with which the turbine car ran away from the field, placed certain restrictions on turbine power plants...
...highway deeply pitted by pellets from cluster bombs made me think of my childhood: bumpy trips in northern Minnesota; Grandma in a motoring hat and duster; and how each time we struck a pothole her immense white head, preceded by the hat, would bounce up and hit the car's canvas top." And "Meos, Muongs and Thais, in the mountains of the wild west, though they do not wear feathers, recall American Indians...
...scene is Eastern exurbia, with its vast, manicured lawns, four-car garages and, most emblematic of the good life, swimming pools. Among those who drank too much is Neddy Merrill (Hurt Lancaster), a fortyish adman. But unlike the commuters who surround him, he nurses no hangover and fights no paunch. One day Merrill inexplicably finds himself eight miles from home dressed only in swimming trunks. Suddenly, obsessed by a strange notion, he decides to take an unearthly route home -by splashing in and out of his neighbors' pools...
...them in medium close shot over long distances, thereby establishing character detail rare in a short police thriller. Note, for example, the affection Commissioner Russell (Henry Fonda) plainly has for the freckles on his mistress' shoulder, or the visual relationship between Detective Madigan (Widmark) and his partner toward their car and New York City...