Word: lanes
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...provincial. "People used to think of stock-car driving as the kind of thing where you roll your cigarettes up in your sleeve and go out for a Saturday night bash-up," recalls Wallace, 33, whose fresh face suggests a fast-track Wall Street trainee rather than a fast-lane white knuckler. "The side of your car usually had something like JOE'S GARAGE...
Driving down a country lane in Poland in early summer, when the poplar trees are releasing blizzards of fluffy white seeds, a visitor comes across horse carts in which families dressed in Sunday finery are headed for a nearby town. Chickens roam in farmyards; geese strut around small ponds. Since fields are unfenced and holdings rarely more than 20 acres, cows are tethered. Twice a day the farmer's wife will put a stool down next to the cow and milk by hand. Because Poland was the least collectivized of the bloc countries, it has a particularly picturesque countryside, including...
...best things to take home are memories of a way of life that still exists in only a few places in the West. When has anyone there last seen a horse and cart on a four-lane expressway? Or oxen tilling a field? Or a Gypsy asleep at the reins, rolling down a main road...
...companion Proposition 108 spelled out the spending goals to the last detail. "Our strategy was to explain that this 5 cents a gallon is $5 a month to the average family of four," says assemblyman Richard Katz. "If you live in the San Fernando Valley, that gets you two lanes on the Simi Valley Freeway and an additional lane in each direction on the Ventura Freeway...
...bedeviled the cast of The Muppet Show from the cheap seats high above the stage were not, as erroneously reported in Beth L. Pinsker's "Lessons From Sesame Street" in the May 21 Crimson, "Waldorf and Mortimer." They were, in fact, named Statler and Waldorf. Shame, shame. Adam Lane...