Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steelworker in The Deer Hunter, now being shot on location near Pittsburgh. That must be it: De Niro does not look like De Niro. But then neither did the flat-out dumb baseball catcher in Bang the Drum Slowly, the moody aristocrat in 1900, the murderous psychopath in Taxi Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except for the aura of intensity under tight control that they share with their creator...
...growing number of black leaders, including Chicago's Jesse Jackson and New York Mayoral Candidate Percy Sutton, are trying to organize blacks in community crusades against crime. Last week people in Harlem led police to two youths who had used a sawed-off shotgun to kill a taxi driver. Says Lewis Mitrano, assistant district attorney in Philadelphia: "The black community is increasingly supporting the efforts of police because it's the black community that suffers most from youth crime and violence. This attitude has done more to combat crime than all the federal funds that have gone into social projects...
Adams estimated that the devices will save 9,000 lives each year because drivers cannot avoid using them (some 80% of drivers and passengers do not buckle their lap and shoulder belts now). Air bags do not require a motorist to do anything; they inflate instantly upon the impact of a collision, keeping the driver and front-seat passengers from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield. To be fully effective, however, an air-bag system should be supplemented with a lap belt-which is not passive. Only one other passive-restraint system exists, a shoulder harness that automatically protects...
...optional extra on Cadillacs and other large cars because so few people bought them. The evidence is good for the effectiveness of bags in saving lives and minimizing injuries in city and highway traffic; in 92 crash situations involving cars equipped with air bags, most of the drivers escaped with either no injuries or only minor ones. Detroit still faces the necessity of perfecting a bag system that will work flawlessly every time, even years after the car has left the factory. With a defective bag, the driver would be unprotected-and automakers would spend more time than ever defending...
...miles an hour, a lone driver smashes his car into a tree and dies in the wreckage. A highway cop notes the dry, straight road and lack of skid marks, then lists the cause of death as "improper driving." But behavioral scientists-as well as police-have long theorized that many such otherwise inexplicable crashes are actually disguised suicides...