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...Then I started thinking about noise," Kaufman added. "That thing (the garage) is going to be open all night. If one guy sits on his horn, it's going to wake up the whole building. It's a common practice in parking garages to honk your horn as you come around a corner. Even if it happened only 15 nights a year, we would consider it an imposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garage Spurs Area Tenants' Dissatisfaction | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

...stand surrounded; braless girls in blue workshirts beside working women with matching shoes and bag. A banner near me, marked with dove, Women's Strike for Peace. Not far away, Hands Off Angela Davis. The Third World Women's Alliance. I can't see in any direction; somewhere cars honk, and voices begin the familiar war whoop. We are anxious to begin. A laughing girl breaks off mid-whoop: "Hey, maybe this isn't feminine." In my notes I describe her as pretty, blond, and am ashamed. I would never describe a man that...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Striking for Equality Women's Lib Day in New York | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

Transported to China, Hathaway watch es rice farmers Maothing revolutionary rubrics, has an interview with the chair man - a benign, ping-pong playing chap - and cons his way to the secret for mula. All the while, beeping and honk ing, he is being tracked like a satellite, his pulse rate and adrenal flow monitored back in England by a one-eyed, three-star general (Arthur Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Chained to an Enzyme | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Silence. Suddenly Eric appeared on the road in the jeep. He had left the cabin just before we got to the road. We tried to honk Tim and Tommy down from their climb up the mountain of snow, but failed. Eric unlocked the chain and we went to the cabin...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...motor trip. On a narrow country road, they run into an interminable traffic jam. They inch past a line of strange highway flotsam, including a cage of circus animals and a sailboat on a trailer manned by a mariner in wet-weather gear. A few stalled cars honk furiously at the interlopers, but most of the passengers have simply given up and are playing ball or chess, reading or relieving themselves. When Dare and Yanne finally reach the head of the line, they find a ghastly accident: smashed cars, bodies, and blood all over the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Society as a Slaughterhouse | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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