Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jose Luis Villa, who slipped across the Mexican border last fall, has even worse prospects. He makes his home on a ragged mattress, one of about 30 lying in a row underneath the roaring traffic of Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway. Next to Villa's mattress stands a cardboard Perrier carton that contains most of his worldly possessions: a toothbrush, a tube of Colgate toothpaste, a cracked and yellowing bar of soap, a flashlight and a beginner's manual of English. Villa looks 13, but he claims to be 16. Every morning he hikes over to the "slave market...
...silver-haired Rev. Robert Schuller appears, there is no doubt about it: the star has arrived. Schuller stares directly at the camera, slices the air with crisp gestures and modulates his powerful voice from a basso profundo to an ingratiating whisper. His arena, the $18 million Crystal Cathedral (two freeway exits south of Disneyland), is, with its mirrored skin and soaring see-through interior, an extension of Schuller's flamboyant style and eternally sunny message...
...although poorly designed public buildings, spaghetti-like freeway intersections and confusing graphic gobbledygook are wasteful and ugly, little attention has been paid to the problem. Says Architect Bill N. Lacy, president of the Cooper Union art, architecture and engineering school in New York City: "The U.S. is a Fourth World country when it comes to design awareness...
Kathryn Sullivan, 33, the first American woman to walk in space, on the relative risks of rocket flight and driving in Texas: "Driving on the Houston freeway is more dangerous. I'll take my chances on the launch...
...poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti decided that "the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." Fellow Futurist Antonio Sant'Elia drew plans for a Utopia of skyscrapers pierced by freeway ramps built of concrete and gleaming steel...