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...like Ed Ruscha's gas stations, give the impression that they're glimpsed vividly and briefly from a passing vehicle. And an essentially traditional modernist like Richard Diebenkorn, during the figurative-landscape phase of his work in the '50s and early '60s - represented here by a slashing landscape called "Freeway and Aqueduct, 1957" - gave those landscapes a sense of rapid movement in deep space, and an imagery of roadworks, water conduits and ramps that you can't dissociate from...
From a high-rise office building just off a freeway in suburban Atlanta, for example, the eight virtual bosses of Popeyes last month orchestrated a restaurant opening in Iceland, designed a new outlet in Honduras and handled a chicken-supply crisis in Fairbanks, Alaska (which is so far from both the Atlanta headquarters and its vendors that it's treated like a foreign outpost...
...overpasses aside, the bus life seems well suited to those looking to avoid life's small annoyances. Take highway congestion. Chriss and Myrna Crawford, from Missoula, Mont., were caught in a three-hour traffic jam on a Los Angeles freeway several years ago. While the exasperated car drivers around and below them craned their neck and cursed, the Crawfords calmly cooked their dinner. In a generation or two, maybe all of us will take...
...order has a voracious appetite for something--anything--to fill time," he said. "It is seldom reporting in the classic sense. Hot pursuits on the California freeway are the maddening apotheosis of this modern curse...
...swank new version of the company's standard sentimental anachronism: nostalgia for an America that never was, for an innocence unclouded by pain or compromise. If that sounds too sweet, then go to an Eminem concert. But there's something tonic about this pretty, compact version of the freeway reality that's just outside the gate. The very notion of getting around California on foot may make a guest giddy. So let the "real" California suffer the brownout blues. At this splendid Disney adventure, visitors need never stop glowing...