Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after they have lived on the streets, lived with independence, proved themselves, home is where they decide to go. Mostly just supporting kids in their break with boring, stifling environments, in their effort to find a new and better life. Limits placed on the number of those who could crash; not to be a home-surrogate...
...knows where it will all end. In Southern California, four-year-old Derek Bland gives expert demonstrations on his 50-cc. Honda. Wearing his silver crash helmet and silver boots, he takes off down his driveway at 12 m.p.h., leans, sticks out a foot expertly to whip his bike around and roars back to his starting point. "I'm too good at this," he says. "You should see me go over a jump. I can do wheelies too." Derek started out on a mini-minibike called the Indian, but quickly became bored. For one thing, it could...
...forbidding motorists to leave keys in the ignition locks of unattended cars. As a result, Chester Gorski of Rome, N.Y. has been ordered to pay $33,862 in damages because his stolen car was involved in a fatal collision. The plaintiff, whose wife was killed in the crash, had a persuasive witness-the car thief. Donald Smith, 18, who is now in jail as a youthful offender, testified that he downed 18 beers at a firemen's carnival, jumped into Gorski's car, found the key dangling from the ignition lock, and sped off at 70 m.p.h. Gorski...
Auto insurance is high, say the insurers, partly because manufacturers design cars that can crumple easily in minor accidents. Allstate Insurance Co. last spring offered a 20% discount on collision coverage for any car that could withstand a 5 m.p.h. crash without front-or rear-end damage. So far there have been no takers. Criticizing Detroit's 1971 models, Allstate Chairman Judson Branch complains: "Look at the bumpers! Still tucked against the sheet metal: a perfect battering ram and shock transmitter. Another model year down the drain as far as sturdier cars...
...deadpan funny and low key as Going All the Way is, it nonetheless instills a very real and tangible paranoia. Each time I hear the sound of smashing glass outside my window, I can't help but wonder if I am witnessing the beginning of the final, biggest crash...