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Suddenly we were on our guard. "Where's it coming from?" I asked, frantically scanning the intersection. But there was no way to tell which driver was pointing at us, until the light changed and he drove by, laughing...
...same in every state. If you're there for a driver's license, there's a chance you'll die waiting. And for TLG employees looking for test targets, it's fish in a barrel. "We can test everything from infant formulas to hearing aids without leaving the premises," Teresa says...
...shop owner. Offering his version of the log-cabin legend, Edwards likes to tell about visiting Washington for the first time in 1976 as a law school student with a summer internship at the Securities and Exchange Commission. After climbing aboard a bus, he was humiliated by the driver when he didn't know what to do with his fare. "I had never been on a city bus before," Edwards remembers now. "I was such a hillbilly!" Even so, he was the kind of hillbilly who became one of North Carolina's top trial lawyers, winning huge negligence and malpractice...
...been laid off from textile factories in the town. With their combined pensions of $100 a month, they also have to support her 85-year-old father. Her biggest worry is for her son. After being laid off, he opened a restaurant that failed; then he got a driver's license but soon discovered the town already had too many taxi drivers. Now he hopes to get a job with a Hong Kong company setting up in the town...
...similar contradiction underlies Ray's big piece blandly titled Unpainted Sculpture, 1997. He found a Pontiac Grand Am that had been totaled in a crash that killed the driver, and then proceeded to dissect out each of its hundreds of distorted parts, make fiberglass copies of them, paint them a uniform light gray and reassemble them as a ghost wreck: maximum violence contradicted by a sort of plodding cool...