Word: headlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then he smirked, a reaction that is actually the polar opposite of the deer-in-the-headlight look that overcame Dan Quayle when he realized he'd exposed his ignorance. No matter how remote Bush's answer to the question at hand, he thinks he's pulled the wool over the teacher's eyes, that with his innate smarts and abundant charm, he will not flunk History 101. After all, it's been arranged. He's going to be President...
...Preston Tucker's Tucker. Francis Ford Coppola's 1988 retelling of the true story of WWII plane manufacturer Preston Tucker's dream of delivering safe, full-featured cars to the average American (check out that third headlight) is like the car itself: Glitzy, well-made, but with an old chassis underneath. In this case, the old parts come from Citizen Kane, and from Coppola's own back story: Driven man takes on the establishment and gets squashed...
...published Paris at Night, a book that instantly secured his reputation and remains one of the milestone volumes of 20th century photography. A picture like L'Avenue de l'observatoire in Autumn is about nothing so much as just dark and light. Its unsentimental main "subject" is a car-headlight beam. A bit as Weegee did in New York City, Brassai hit below the beltways of Paris. What he liked best was what he found in the black sockets of the city, under the bridges and in the streets where hookers dangled their stuff and planted themselves with monumental assurance...
...folk artist, said, "It's been a long road and this does matter. I appreciate it." Meanwhile, veteran folk-rocker Bob Dylan won best album and best contemporary folk album for "Time Out of Mind." His son, Jakob, was honored as a composer of the best rock song, "One Headlight," performed by his band, the Wallflowers. Father and son took home a total of five Grammys, three and two respectively. Rapper Puff Daddy, Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan, country-bluegrass performer Alison Krauss, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, soul newcomer Erykah Badu and the late newsman Charles Kuralt were also multiple...
...obnoxious road warrior. There seem to be only three types of people on the road these days: the insane (those who drive faster than you), the moronic (those who drive slower than you) and...you. But this merely confuses the issue. Surely someone is doing all that speeding, tailgating, headlight flashing and abrupt lane changing, not to mention the bird flipping and horn blasting. There's enough in the phenomenon of road rage to keep a faculty-loungeful of social theorists thinking deeply for years--or at least until the grant money runs...