Word: pontoons
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...Indeed, just down the street, pumps at gas stations were toppled. Strip malls were no more. The Paul Bunyan head from the statue outside the Lauterbach auto shop was missing. Buses, mobile homes, pontoon boats, delivery trucks - all tipped on their side, thrown like toys. "We're taking our trucks, everything we got, to do what we can to pick up trees, whatever," said Steve Ferrier, a Springfield water department employee. "I'm 34, and I've just never seen anything like this. It has just devastated the city...
...deliver their most luxurious cars merely as a chassis, engine and drive train, sometimes also with a basic body, leaving it to the buyer and his "coach builder" to finish the product along their own lines. With his now forgotten British builder, Trossi crafted a long body with pontoon fenders that ended in tapering points. So did the swelling tongue of the trunk, creating a three-pronged effect in the rear that Batman would have loved...
...activities: Kayak, pontoon-boat and bike rentals; Birding Festival...
...exhorting their pale male swains to "Strap me on!" Meyer's oeuvre was all about sex: getting it, revering it, suffering for it, joking about it and, mostly, staring at it. He achieved what, John Berger has written, is the essence of cinema: Men looking at women. Women with pontoon protuberances...
...camera, New York was already a cyclotron for every human impulse. The saintly and the unsanitary spun around at high speed. In his pictures the city was a place of immigrant bustlers. Raw bloodlines howl from their faces. The streets were full of plump, sexy cars, carnal Fords and pontoon-fendered Buicks. By some reports Faurer could be a difficult, saturnine man. But he had a gift for seizing thunderbolts from New York's crackling air. He made just a handful of great pictures, but in them you find the city we still know--so intricate in mood, so darkly...