Word: thruway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action really does center on Lemmon and Deneuve. Perhaps it is some unknown clairvoyant power that lets you be drawn into them, to let you feel for them so much; whatever it is, it works. As Potter is drunkenly speeding down the Thruway to get Brubaker to kennedy for the flight with Catherine to Paris, you find yourself whispering, "Make it, man! Oh please let him make it!" I hadn't rooted so hard for the good guys since the Yale game...
...completely free of intersections and traffic lights. The ultimate -coast to coast without a red light - will not be possible until 1972. But right now, the American Automobile Association announces, a driver can wheel onto the Massachusetts Turnpike in downtown Boston, go on to pick up the New York Thruway (Interstate 90), continue through Pennsylvania to Interstate 71 leading to the Ohio Turnpike and Indiana Toll Road (both posted Interstate 80/90), then, using the recently completed Chicago bypass, proceed on Interstate 80 to the outskirts of Council Bluffs, Iowa, join Interstate 29 to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and then back...
Julia Spring '67 and Allan Tobin, a Quincy House tutor in Biology, were seriously injured in an automobile accident near New York City on the New England Thruway before dawn Sunday morning...
...standards, Brazil's Highway BR-14 is certainly no Indiana turnpike or New York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization...
...naive delight with which the primitives approached nature's wonders. The abstract aires expressionists, for all their paint slinging often evoked a topography new in art, often but recognizable . De Kooning's splashes of green and brown are glimpses of landscape any driver who barrels down a thruway at 85 m.p.h,; Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rythm distills the essence of a smoky fall day; his skeins of paint make of a season an environment. Arshile Gorky's Water of the Flowery Mill is filled with fluid, biomorphic forms; they are of nature, but the images seem...