Word: chasings
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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...
...snowy aftermath of odd Halloween weather, Dartmouth (10-4, 4-1 Ivy) gave Harvard (7-6-1, 1-4) more trick than treat by defeating the Crimson 3-0 on the frozen tundra of Chase Field...
...HUPD officers assisted the Cambridge Police Department and the Brookline Police Department after a high-speed chase ended near the Malkin Athletic Center...
Wilson J. Hunt Jr. '65-'69, who was arrested after an extended car chase, will be arraigned on six charges--including armed assault with intent to murder--as soon as doctors determine he is fit to participate in a legal proceeding...