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...heaters for every car) and Jack-In-The-Box restaurants at which you merely pause, still in "drive," give your order to a polite machine, move ahead to a window, pick up your Bonusburger with the Secret Sauce as fast as a train snagging a mailbag, pay, then munch away even as you grind back up to 70 on the freeway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Where the Auto Reigns Supreme | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

Inflated Blues. Picasso's immature work has benefited greatly from hindsight and feedback. The slides flick, the familiar images succeed one another-the young painter chewing his way through Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Gauguin, Munch, Steinlen and a host of other influences that crowded upon him in Barcelona and, after 1900, in Paris. There is no consolidated style in Picasso's career until, aged 21, he starts moving into the Blue and Pink periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anatomy of a Minotaur | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Residents of Manchester, Conn., were startled six years ago when they learned that a highway interchange proposed for Interstate 84 would munch up 50 acres of greenery that had been zoned for recreation near the center of town. The highway construction, the townspeople complained, would destroy three baseball diamonds, a football field, and a small playground and would take up space allotted for future recreational developments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Overlooked Cloverleaf | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...what flavor to choose. For those who also stop to consider the caloric implications of their decision, Baskin-Robbins offers the following guide to the dietetic damage potential of twelve glop favorites. The calorie counts are for a single scoop, with a sugar cone; multiple dips, naturally, come to munch, munch more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Calorie Count | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

With impeccable environmental concern, Treasury renounced incinerators in favor of pulverizers-machines that munch money, then pound the shredded paper into compact packages. The first pulverizers will probably be installed in the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank in about six months. Within five years, says Treasury, all of America's discarded dollars may be recycled into such products as plastics, fiberboard and roofing material. One proposed scheme-using shredded money for building insulation -would give householders the happy illusion of being literally surrounded by millions of greenbacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Money Munchers | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

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