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...murder make a tale that hovers on the edge of panic. Resolving to be cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another coin the tollkeeper pokes and pries about the car, helpfully looking for the lost coin...
...flush toilet or have any idea of a sanitary latrine? Did Charles Dickens ever hear a radio? Did Goethe ever handle a camera? . . . Did Charles Lamb ever see Ginger Rogers or use a plastic toothbrush? Did Wordsworth ever cross in the Hudson Tunnel or drive on the Merritt Parkway? . . . Why must we be the mirror to the universe? Where are the standards? The invalid assumptions must fall away, and some common standard for all humanity must be rediscovered...
Apparently that New England curiosity is causing traffic tie-ups along Soldiers Field Parkway from 1600 to 1700 o'clock daily, when the potential 2nd Lieutenants have their physical training period clad in shorts, showing off their Miami suntanned legs--to say nothing of their drill-ability...
...Flynn is a tall, smooth, peaceable fellow who lives at 2728 Hudson Parkway, The Bronx, N.Y. To some of his chums it would come as a matter of no surprise to hear he had jumped off a roof...
...brilliant set piece, Romains leads him into the deafening shadows of Manhattan's Chatham Square, for an infernal glimpse of the U.S. "Middle Ages." Later, in "the hypnotic rhythm" of a Parkway drive to Jones Beach, they move on a road so magnificently designed that it makes a car "an instrument capable of making a landscape sing"; among many other cars in "an incredibly vast dance," as if some all-but-cosmic power had caught a whole race into planetary motion...