Word: rodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard picked up one first down. But then with a third down on their own 39, Crimson quarterback John McCluskey rolled to the right on an option pitchout play. As McCluskey was about to lateral the ball to halfback Wally Grant, end Rod Watson got his hand on the ball. The ball blooped high into the air, and was recovered on the Crimson 43 by Jim Howard...
...torpid adaptation of Alberto Moravia's first novel, published in 1929. A young beauty (Claudia Cardinale) and her brother (Tomas Milian) struggle vainly to find meaning or purpose in existence. Mother (Paulette Goddard, in a series of unflattering closeups) is a faded gentlewoman whose unscrupulous lover (Rod Steiger) has entered a bid for Claudia and the family estates. Meanwhile, an aging adventuress (Shelley Winters) arduously lures young Tomas to her bed. He acquiesces at last because all choices seem meaningless. Ultimately, meaninglessness infects the film as a whole, and Indifference is remarkable only for Steiger's highly concentrated...
...customized, homemade hot-rod is American folk art," says Laing. "The car is escape, the home on wheels, the second self, the great American dream. Racing them has as much ritual as the Japanese tea ceremony." He even brought his own hot-rod to London last summer. The chopped-down 1930 Ford roadster with an exposed, chrome-plated 1955 Chevrolet engine and Offenhauser manifolds drew more attention than a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud with the Queen inside. He sold it at a London traffic light...
Laing abstracts the hot-rod esthetic in paintings on brass and aluminum that hinge and bend to slither up the walls or across the floor. They employ the customized car lingo in their textures: chrome and riots of rainbow "flake" (colored metal chips frozen in sprayed vinyl) finishes. They take the serpentine ripple of flames painted on the sides of racing cars, the flapping forms of the parachutes used to slow giant dragsters. Before Laing's one-man show in Manhattan opened last week at the Richard Feigen Gallery, they also were completely sold...
Primeval Presumption. During an electron microscopic examination of samples of ancient, black sedimentary rock from South Africa, Paleontologist Barghoorn uncovered the remains of 3-billion-year-old, rod-shaped organisms so small that 50,000 of them, placed end to end, would measure only an inch. Until his find, the oldest known forms of life were more complex tiny organisms-also identified and photographed by Barghoorn (TIME, March 12)-that existed about 2 billion years ago. With the older specimens, he now believes "we are getting close to an area in time-say within a half-billion years-of possible...