Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...G.T.O. in Two-Lane Blacktop...
Director Monte Hellman has taken this kind of chopped and channeled mythology and turned it into an American pop epic called Two-Lane Blacktop. The film is immaculately crafted, funny and quite beautiful, resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness. There are extended pauses and dialogue exchanges full of deliberate paradox. Few film makers have dealt so well or so subtly with the American landscape. Not a single frame in the film is wasted. Even the small touches-the languid tension while refueling at a back-country gas station or the piercing sound of an ignition buzzer-have...
Full Velocity. Two-Lane Blacktop does suffer from a certain overfamiliarity. After Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and their sundry imitators, the American highway as a metaphor has become a pretty well-traveled route. But Two-Lane Blacktop is full of its own surprises. Rock Stars James Taylor and Dennis Wilson are fine as the Driver and the Mechanic: Taylor's gaunt face and haunted eyes and Wilson's strong, oblique presence suit Hellman's purposes perfectly...
...Catalan. The five-acre garden was created by Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of the area in Paris' Bois du Bologne that bears the same name. The little lagoons, intricate patterns of shade trees, and the tiny lane lined with hawthorns (whose pink blossoms reminded Proust of his favorite dish, strawberries crushed in cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that the novel's thinly fictionalized narrator (whom Proust named Marcel) meets his first love, Swann's daughter Gilberte. The Pré Catalan is much...
...Mayor Richard J. Daley has once again proved that the hand is quicker than the eye [June 7]. Eager Chicago cyclists read of his new "Bicycle Route System" with delight, until they realized that it consisted of signs picturing bicycles posted along regular city streets, with no special lane designation for cyclists...