Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrewdly sizes him up and, chameleonlike, takes on a completely new identity, one that he hopes will impress his listener. Spinning out fantasies about imaginary pasts, GTO becomes by turns a gambler, a television producer, a racer, a war hero. The role of GTO in the movie Two Lane Blacktop calls for virtuoso acting, and gets it-from a 43-year-old veteran of a hundred movie and television westerns named Warren Gates. Still little known to the public, Oates is now being described by directors as a new Paul Muni, a John Garfield, a Humphrey Bogart...
Britain's ghosts, reports Underwood's book, are nowhere busier than in London. The Bank of England, for example, has a resident ghost: the Black Nun. Several London theaters have ghosts, most notably the Theater Royal on Drury Lane, where the good-omened "man in gray" floats into view-but only during the opening nights of successful productions. Westminster Cathedral, which was long ghost-free, reported its first spook in 1966, but Kensington and St. James's palaces and Windsor Castle have much longer ghostly histories, and the bloody Tower of London has been plagued for centuries...
...evidence of the bloodbath is all over East Pakistan. Whole sections of cities lie in ruins from shelling and aerial attacks. In Khalishpur, the northern suburb of Khulna, naked children and haggard women scavenge the rubble where their homes and shops once stood. Stretches of Chittagong's Hizari Lane and Maulana Sowkat Ali Road have been wiped out. The central bazaar in Jessore is reduced to twisted masses of corrugated tin and shattered walls. Kushtia, a city of 40,000, now looks, as a World Bank team reported, "like the morning after a nuclear attack." In Dacca, where soldiers...
MILESTONES Married. Candy Mossier, 51, the softspoken, blonde Georgia belle who, after her sensational 1966 trial on a charge of murdering her 69-year-old millionaire husband Jacques Mossier, was acquitted along with Nephew Melvin Lane Powers; and Barnett Garrison, 32, an electrical contractor; she for the third, he for the second time; in Houston...
That the fadeout is strangely chilly and unaffecting does riot prevent Two-Lane Blacktop from being one of the most ambitious and interesting American films of the year...