Search Details

Word: drive-in (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Composer Joseph Schwantner, 39. "When you play Carnegie Hall, the knees tend to knock," said Stargell. But last week he gave a great performance in a career marked by great performances. For the old ballplayer, his debut was one from the heart. "Once, I remember we went to a drive-in movie, and the blacks had to sit in the back on benches with a little tin roof overhead in case it rained. Memories like that make you want to do something for Dr. King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...than 80% of the banks impose no fees on small savings accounts, and 75% offer free checking to senior citizens. Smaller banks are still looking for little ways to be generous. The Princeton Bank in New Jersey, for example, not only offers lollipops for children but also, at one drive-in branch, gives dog biscuits to their pets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fewer Freebies | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...sleazier twin brother. Kathleen Turner's Matty mixes come-hither looks with a sultry, baritone voice. This is a creature of fire and ice, with no intermediate shadings of warmth or aloofness. Thanks largely to her presence, Body Heat is a film to be seen at a drive-in, on a heavy summer night, with someone you trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Torrid Movie, Hot New Star | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Burlington is one of those towns where almost every building is one-story and surrounded by parking lots. It's a drive-in town; what was once America's largest shopping mall, up the street a very busy McDonald's and Burger King, down the road those big discount houses with name-brand stereos, $179.99 for two weeks only. It's near Rte. 128, and the very smallest computer firms start out here, in the brick office parks put up in the 50s. When they leave, different businesses move in to the treeless complexes. One parking lot has a dance...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...daughter trucks around with vicious punks; her son is a criminally insane foot fetishist. Only Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), Francine's dream lover, offers any hope for spiritual regeneration, for he is everything her husband is not: handsome, slim, roughly debonair, and the owner of an art drive-in that shows Marguerite Duras triple bills. Best of all, he is in love with her . . . or so it seems. Francine should have known something would go wrong. She has, literally, a nose for trouble-and so has the film. Polyester is the first motion picture in Odorama, a wondrous screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lights! Camera! Pittsburgh! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Previous | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | Next