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Gilbert went outside and tried hitchhiking to Dieppe, but he could not get a ride. Then he started running drunkenly through a cornfield. Philippe ran after him. In a sudden onrush of pity, Philippe urged the bedraggled Gilbert to come and spend the night in his room. Gilbert replied with a storm of curses...
...blue sedan is parked on the inside shoulder of the eastbound lane of the Ohio turnpike. The driver makes lusty love to a red-shirted girl lying on a blanket on the median strip. Lush-Ohio grass, bent about a subtle flex of asphalt, spinning through the onrush of high-revving machines, hollowed to catch the sky's seed, pulls through their pressing embrace. Coupled in time and stasis, the lovers arch to the Indianapolis sounds of the cars, rising and fading in perpetually lost motions...
...long, desert road. Cars are few and I trace their rear lights back to nothing in the sideview mirror, where they are but a pin-pricked rupture in the great sack of night, a bleeding stream of fleeting electricity. I push the van to 95 in the soundless onrush of blackness, while the flourescent stakes by the roadside teeter rearward and empty lights hang nowhere out in the desert, some mystery of some nuclear facility...
...have America by the throat and pocketbook. Mass transit in most large cities is in a state of near collapse. Assessed with hindsight at such a time, Robert Moses' life and works sound baneful indeed. But as Caro himself points out, Moses was a visionary. He anticipated the onrush of the automobile age long before it came and tried to do something about it. When he started building public parks, nobody else was doing it, and his idea that they should be recreation areas rather than simple nature preserves was humane and revolutionary. At the time most people were...
Long range plans for the Square are necessary because the planned library is expected to draw a million visitors a year. Cambridge city planners are attempting to coordinate the surge of development in the area which is already starting in anticipation of the onrush of tourists...