Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burk Uzzle, a former Life photographer and current member of Magnum Photos, Inc., leads us on a tour of pop and chrome America. Oblique lines on a parking lot lead us to a lone horse-rider on blacktop; an arrow directs us past a rooster on a traffic island. Emphasizing design and pure form, Uzzle illustrates an econoline van making it a highly disciplined composition--circular wheels, white slab body that flows into each white side of the frame, and black geometric solids surround the white...
...Rhodesian Front party; a dozen of them have already threatened to resign if he compromises the power of Rhodesia's 250,000 whites over 5 million Africans. It also remains to be seen whether the U.S. Senate vote last week to lift the embargo on Rhodesian chrome might strengthen the hand of Rhodesia's hardliners...
...vans are everywhere: parked near the beach at Cape Cod, on Manhattan's West Side, on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, or cruising the roads, pikes and throughways in between. Few of them are new and shiny, and no one bothers much about paint or chrome. The kids actually prefer them to have modest exteriors; a flashy-looking van is always more attractive to thieves. To the owner what is important is what is inside...
...were taken to Tsinghua University, where Cowan and the younger players broke off to play table tennis with some of the students. Steenhoven, the Chrysler man, was invited to drive a truck that had been built almost entirely by the students. "I complimented them on the quality of the chrome, the bead of the arc welding, and the high-quality workmanship," he said. "I drove the truck very badly, I'm afraid, partly because the press was out there in front and I was afraid I might kill a couple, so I stalled the engine a couple of times...
...Duvall) watches television, he turns to a channel where a beating proceeds incessantly-the violence and sadism of today's viewing, minus the annoyances of plot. When THX is tried for the forbidden act of lovemaking, his judge is a computer. The police of the 25th century are chrome-plated automatons, one of whom is played by Johnny Weissmuller Jr. If Lucas creates an eerie universe, he also implies a rather damning thought; Haven't we been here before? Indeed we have, in the constructions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, who used their views of the future...