Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surer signs of summer is the arrival of the annual Burt Reynolds country-and-western movie. Like their musical counterparts, these bumpkin epics (Gator and W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings) deal in broad comedy and simple emotions. Generally they just place their hero in one or more fast-moving vehicles while motivating one or more square characters to give chase to him. Between crashes, Reynolds is given a series of wisecracks that establish his basic screen character-shrewd, laid-back, a tad reckless and a devil with women...
During last January's Big Freeze, it seemed that the weather would never warm up fast enough to save the nation from a series of natural-gas emergencies. As fuel shortages forced the closing of many schools and factories, industry officials expressed fears that their underground reservoirs were being depleted so rapidly that they could not be built back to normal during the summer-dooming the U.S. to another shortage next winter...
...Motors, for one, expects to be offering front-wheel-drive models with small engines that consume little fuel. Until then, industry analysts say, the only thing that could slow sales of imported cars would be an inability of foreign manufacturers to make and ship their models to the U.S. fast enough to meet demand. American automakers should have such a problem...
...Remember, the pendulum could swing the other way. It always does." A few years later, sure enough, Fairbank was again struck by the pendulum's swing when he was criticized by "New Left" China scholars who felt he had been insufficiently critical of U.S. policy toward Peking and insufficiently fast in becoming a critic of the Vietnam war. During both the attack from the Right and then that from the Left, Fairbank never abandoned his own stance...
...there, scrambling out of the Winnebago and hitting the ground in full gallop, is the candidate himself. So fast does he move that he is inside the store before the storekeeper can stir, blinking in the dimness and striding toward the storekeeper with his hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...