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...Chatham, Va., a community of 1,822 residents not far from a highway connecting it with Greensboro, N.C., and beyond. In the center of town is the courthouse of Pittsylvania County -named after William Pitt the Elder, who was the Earl of Chatham. Chatham boasts the elegant, Episcopal-run Chatham Hall school for girls on one side of town and the Hargrave Military Academy on the other, as well as 19th-century wooden houses with broad front lawns and wide verandas...
...even without his stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...
This loud and largely dismal exercise represents the culmination of one direction contemporary American movies have taken. Despite the functional presence of actors, the cars are the true heroes. Romantic interludes are represented by automobiles pulling up alongside each other at midnight on a long stretch of highway. Car crashes must do double duty: they serve as both spectacle and comic relief. This film, as mechanical as a lube job, gives the distinct impression that it could have done without characters completely. A good thing that people are still required to get cars started and keep them on the road...
...latest project, Running Fence, moved toward completion on the coast of northern California. A shimmering construction of nylon slung between steel posts, Running Fence issues from the sea at Bodega Bay in Marin County, wending 24½ miles up hill and down dale, over ten public roads (including Highway 101) and through dozens of farms, to finish inland near Petaluma, Calif. For an artwork, it has consumed staggering amounts of time, manpower and materials: 300 students, 2,050 posts, 165,000 yds. of material, miles of wire and hundreds of thousands of hooks...
...precisely sure of the reasons for the exurban increases, but there are some theories: rural and suburban police have improved crime reporting methods; youths in affluent suburbs are finding crime increasingly attractive; the nation's highway system has enabled criminals to become fast commuters...