Word: cars
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American Graffiti. George Lucas' best movie. A recollection of the end of an era--glossed over, perhaps, but that's part of the concept, and the film glistens with a dopey, wistful irony. Lucas combines shimmering, colorful, almost surreal sequences of cars drifting down "The Strip"--heads craned out car windows, bare asses pressed against glass, hoots and come-ons and dares--with plain, naturalistic, informally posed medium shots of his characters; or he sets them against neon. Underneath it all--almost without a break--rocks the music of Bill Haley and the Comets, The Platters, Buddy Holly, and everyone...
...been apprehended and either sentenced to death or plea-bargained for lesser sentences, but the politically powerful millionaire whom Arizona prosecutors are convinced ordered and paid for Bolles's execution is still a free man. John Harvey Adamson, the man who admits planting the bomb under Bolles's car, has testified that he was hired for $50,000 to kill Bolles and two other enemies of Arizona liquor dealer Kemper Marley through a Marley intermediary. Bolles had written an investigative article about Marley that had prevented Marley's appointment to the state's racing commission, a panel which, among other...
...group announced, "a careful documentation and analysis of the commercial strip is as important to architects and urbanists today as were the studies of medieval Europe and ancient Rome and Greece to earlier generations." Why? Because the strip was there; it was what the dominant American machine, the car, had actually done to cities. The architect's job was not to ignore the strip (it would not go away, whether Modernism liked it or not), but to learn to do the strip well. And this meant tolerating variety: of style, of lingo, of message. "For the artist, creating...
Heading a team that is 3-12, currently in the middle of a ten-game losing streak, McLaughlin, the eternal optimist who could rival the best of used car dealers, had only praise for his team...
Coop employees and customers blocked the overpass from the book department to the main store, hoping to see Bacall as she walked to her car. As she drove away, a group of workmen on a scaffolding overlooking the alley shouted, "Lauren, Lauren...