Word: drive-in
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...Africa, American films are watched in American-style drive-in theaters to the accompaniment of hamburgers and fries, washed down with Coca-Cola. One of the biggest cultural events in Kenya in recent weeks has been the national disco-dancing championships. But in Nairobi last month, two dozen representatives of cultural organizations held a seminar on "Cultural Industry for East and Central Africa" and concluded that something must be done to roll back Western (primarily American) dominance of cinema, television, music and dance. "Our governments must adopt conscious policies to stop the dazzle of Western culture from creeping...
...landscape was one of atomic optimism on the go, of Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than much of today's franchised glitz. Says Arthur Krim...
...modern airliner, as all know, cleverly compresses the minor irritations of several days or weeks of travel into a few hours of astonishing misery. There is no need to speak of the automobile, superb for drive-in banking, exasperating for other uses. What else is there? Dog sledding, backpacking? Each has its merits. Hot-air ballooning? Lovely, but lacking direction. Are we forgetting something...
...even prefer a veto. After being outmaneuvered in recent weeks on tax cuts and the American flag, they relish the prospect of watching Bush explain why he rejected federal help for poor women facing a horrible predicament. "This isn't about teenagers getting pregnant in a car at the drive-in movie," says a top aide to the House Democratic leadership. "This is about rape and incest and poor women...
...nightmare began Thanksgiving weekend in 1976, when Adams was picked up by David Harris, 16, after running out of gas. The two went to a drive-in movie. Adams claims Harris dropped him off at his motel room a little before 10 p.m., but Harris said the two tooled around Dallas with Adams driving until well after midnight. When they were stopped by a policeman, Harris claimed, he hunched down in the passenger seat as Adams pulled out a .22-cal. pistol and shot officer Robert Wood dead...