Word: superealism
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...nation's traffic, provide vital defense routes in case of war ... The new roads will ease present congestion, be able to accommodate the nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves, no crossroads and a wide center strip, the super system is expected to save 3,500 lives annually, reduce accident costs by $725 million, save commercial operators another $825 million by cutting delay ... Motorists will be able to drive from Los Angeles to New York over the federal network without passing a single traffic light or intersection. --TIME, June...
...Remember commercials? Those 30-second films about beer and cars? The ones you used to make a point of watching during the Super Bowl until Janet Jackson's boob popped out and they stopped making the funny offensive ones? The ones you used to watch between acts of TV shows, before you got TiVo or started watching everything on DVD? Yes, well, there's still a multi-billion dollar industry based on the premise that people still watch and pay attention to them...
...burned the 67-year-old in effigy, while former team manager Tommy Docherty harrumphed that "Manchester United's heart and soul were sold today." But fans may be blowing the whistle too soon: Glazer's business savvy helped another team he owns-the Tampa Bay Buccaneers-to a Super Bowl...
...First movie based on a game: Super Mario Brothers...
...owner outside the club's Old Trafford stadium. "People feel very, very deeply about this club," says John Williams, director of the University of Leicester's Centre for the Sociology of Sport. But if Manchester United is as successful under Glazer's ownership as the Buccaneers, who won the Super Bowl in 2003, all may be soon forgiven...