Word: freeway
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RIVERSIDE, California: Video clips of two Riverside Sheriff's deputies repeatedly clubbing two suspected illegal Mexican immigrants on a Los Angeles freeway Monday led civil right groups to wonder if any progress had been made since the 1991 beating of Rodney King. The arrest of the Mexican man and woman, who were transporting 21 people in the back of their rusty pickup, does have many of the key ingredients of the King arrest: a high speed chase, prolonged use of force by officers after a suspect had collapsed, and a videotaped recording of every baton blow. However, says TIME...
After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. Call it recreational primitivism. But the mind needs its rest too. So we go intellectual backpacking: We dabble in potions and auras; we give rapt attention to bearers of tales of alien abduction and Satanism in schools. "I can stand brute force," wrote Oscar Wilde, "but brute reason is quite unbearable." Ah, the relief...
...more progressive states and fiefdoms such as Southern California, commuter lanes have been in place for years--and there, you only need two people in a car to ride the good life into the sunset. Admittedly, few people use them, but they are undeniably a staple of the California freeway system. "Oh, the diamond lanes," a properly blase, jaded Californian will say, giving the lanes their...
...today, or perhaps truer, than when he set his brush to them. He is a painter of nostalgia for an America that was lost with the advent of cars, automation and urbanization. He is a painter of solitude for a country that has become increasingly atomized, where the California freeway lanes for carpoolers are often empty for hours at a time. He is a painter of loneliness for a country that has become increasingly lonely, where people search for cyberlove rather than knocking on a neighbor's door...
...SIMPSON IS A FREE MAN TODAY, he leaves behind a machinery of law that looks as twisted as any Los Angeles freeway after an earthquake. Critics of his acquittal point to issues that took the trial where it had no business going, from the defense plea for racial reparations to breathless news bulletins on Marcia Clark's hairdo. Yet even within the strict letter of the law, the case unfolded with such grotesque distortions of what most Americans think of as normal justice that the system itself ended up in the dock. Verdicts are now coming down, and they...