Word: drive-in
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Alex played three sports at Bloomfield and lifted weights besides. He was something of a ladies' man. But even rodding in and out of Johnny's Drive-in in his Camaro, he was not the stereotypical rowdy jock. "He was more mature than normal seniors, more levelheaded," says Tony Dinallo, his high school counselor. His mother says he was a serious boy and the quietest of her children...
Hula-Hoops. Frisbees. Drag races. The pizza parlor. One or more of these images will bring back the summers of their adolescence for many Americans who grew up in the '50s or early '60s. For others, however, one phrase says it all: the drive-in. They probably had their first date in a 1957 gas guzzler, with wraparound windows and sharklike tailfins, where they learned that sex is not just a three-letter word. But now, a mere 50 years after the first one opened in Camden, N.J., the drive-in is an endangered institution; in much...
...make all that asphalt-covered acreage too expensive to use only at night; a shopping center or housing development can be more profitable. Another culprit is cable TV, particularly the first-run films shown on such pay systems as HBO and Showtime. One of the major appeals of the drive-in was that the whole family, from Grandpa to Baby Sis, could pile into a car, taking with them food, pillows and blankets, and see a double feature surrounded by most of the comforts of home. Now they can see the same kind of films without even leaving home...
...Texas, drive-ins are not only surviving but thriving. One of the most popular features in the Dallas Times Herald is "Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In," a tongue-in-cheek guide to what is playing under the stars. Writing from the redneck's point of view, Joe Bob Briggs (a pseudonym for Movie Critic John Bloom) tells his readers where they can find what they want: nudity, sex and gore galore. Joe Bob's alltime favorite was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but he also raved about Burt Reynolds' W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings...
Moviegoers must now trek to the "cine-pare," not "le drive-in," and listen to the "balladeur," a rechristened Walkman French attacks on franglais are by now virtually de rigueur, but the recent assault appears stricter. A court has already leveled a fine of $200 on the Paris Opera, which allowed an American musical using a Paris theater to print its program entirely in English...