Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side, was the journey's nadir. Planted in the middle of nowhere--away from the mountains, on the edge of the desert--its only excuse was the conflation of the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers. Like my automobile, the town itself is an escape hatch. Nothing strange penetrates past the jacked-up cars in which everyone cruises...
...desert and sky but the edge of the road, the broken glass in the run-offs. It wasn't the American Dream, but it was an acceptable substitute: the random and the strange. Driving down 70 could not fit anymore into my easy categories--the images flowing past my windshield demanded my attention. The television mode with its comforting torpor collapsed in the face of scenes no screen could capture...
...hundred and fifty miles past Grand Junction, past the last house, I hit a traffic jam. Under normal circumstances this would have been completely unexceptional, but this was nowhere. A quarter of a mile ahead, the worst of reasons was lying moaning on the ground, a victim of a three-car accident...
...much time traveling that he no longer feels that he just gets on airplanes: "I wear them." That view is shared by TIME's National Political Correspondent, John Stacks, who has a mandate to range far and frequently to meet candidates and test political moods. In the past two months, Stacks has done extensive firsthand reporting on Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, California Governor Jerry Brown, Texas Republican George Bush and Reagan. He and Los Angeles Correspondent Joseph Kane collaborated on the profile and interview of the former actor and Governor that appear in the Nation section this week...
...direct interest in oil companies, I think it would be fair to say that if prices had been allowed to rise gradually for the past seven years, these "sinful" and "pornographic" profits would have been acceptable. Also, small cars would have been in demand sooner, energy conservation materials would not be suddenly scarce, other forms of energy would be more advanced, oil exploration would be up, and oil imports would not have reached the current high levels...