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...reached a point where many drivers think they are sacrificing safety to attain speeds of 200 m.p.h. and more. Britain's David Hobbs described driving on the ancient, windswept Indy track as "the art of low-level aviation." A.J. Foyt, three-time Indy winner, does not share the peculiar machismo that causes some drivers to resist safety changes. "The speed in big-time racing today," Foyt says, "is so fast it scares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Life and Death at Indy | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...other hand, as played by Gian Maria Volonte (gratefully remembered as the title character in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion), Mattei himself emerges as a fascinating enigma-proud, driven, a masterful manipulator. His sheer energy-and his peculiar sense of realism, which appears to have been a blend of cynicism and idealism-compels attention. A pioneer conglomerator, he headed a state-owned corporation and drove himself not for money (he apparently had no life, let alone luxury, outside the office), but for power and, perhaps, for love of a game in which he delightedly cast himself in the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Italian Crude | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...proceedings grew out of the peculiar frenzy that seized America during the early cold war years, and an attempt by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to suggest that many actors and writers were dangerous, dedicated agents of a Communist conspiracy to undermine the American way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy and Farce | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

There is, for example, a peculiar fascination with things French throughout the pieces in the show. A particular brand of French cigarette package is included as the central element of several of the works. On a formal level, this package can be read, along with flattened parcel post wrapping, as the very model of a three-dimensional object being forced into two dimensions. But also, when looked at in conjunction with works titled The French Line, The French Drawing Block, it becomes clear that the formal task is tied, as another part of the legacy of the modern French schools...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Downtown and In Town | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...personal interests peculiar, perhaps only to Robert Motherwell, perhaps to a whole class of painters, can be seen as an extension of the artist's signature, that signature itself plays an important role in a number of the individual collages. These range from the address label of a pasted package to the Reversible Collage signed at the bottom, and again, upside down, at the top. The signature has always been one of the primary signs by which it could be asserted that the picture was something special in the world, and by which the painter could put himself into...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Downtown and In Town | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

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