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...WHERE ARE YOU? Smart highway systems such as automated toll-collection devices hold the promise of smoothing out traffic jams, eliminating toll booths and cutting costs. But the same equipment that permits the automatic billing of a passing car can be used to register a motorist's whereabouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...reviewer emerged from an early screening of Lost Highway with the cry of "Garbage!" Well, David Lynch must be doing something right. The creator of Twin Peaks describes his first film in four years as a "21st century noir horror film." It has a battered suitcase of references to old Hollywood film noir, the requisite gore for a scare show and, in the spooky presence of Robert Blake--with his pancake white face, shaved eyebrows and sickly smile--an eldritch harbinger of death like the dwarf in Twin Peaks. So whatever that critic may think, Lost Highway isn't refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MILD AT HEART | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...charts, right behind Celine Dion and Kenny G. Rolling Stone magazine put Manson on its cover in January and proclaimed him Best New Artist of 1996. This week Manson makes his screen debut as a seedy porn actor in the David Lynch film Lost Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SATAN'S LITTLE HELPERS | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...findings but stressed that phones could also enhance road safety by allowing drivers in distress to call for help. Even the Journal study did not say the phones were responsible for the accidents, but that they were merely associated with them. And Michael Goodman, a researcher with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, concurred, pointing out that the nature of a call--an argument, say--could be more distracting than the call itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISTRESS CALLS | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...free-to-the-masses World Wide Web. But now that AOL has matched its Web rivals on price, the training wheels have come off. And AOL is not only still pedaling, but--its recent mishaps notwithstanding--it also currently runs the most lucrative toll booth on the information highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL BUYS SOME TIME | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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