Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early years of the century, Los Angeles had more than 1,000 miles of urban rail lines, more than any other U.S. city. By 1961, the trains were defeated by freeways and the conscious effort of auto, tire and oil companies to cripple rail transit, for which they were convicted in court. The new rail project, financed by adding .5% to the area's existing 6% sales tax, will share much of the right-of-way of the old system. The first passengers will board in 1989, and by the year 2000, says the Los Angeles County transportation commission...
...Palomar takes us to the zoo in wandering pursuit of order. There, instead of a great white whale at the end of his epic, he stumbles on the world's only albino gorilla, Copito de Nieve, holding an old rubber tire to his chest...
...enormous void of his hours, Copito de Nieve never abandons the tire...From it he can have a glimpse of what for man is the search for an escape from the dismay of living--investing oneself in things, recognizing oneself in signs, transforming the world into a collection of symbols--a first daybreak of culture in the long biological night...
...language, a model of words to fight the entropy of things. Calvino leaves us with a cozy picture of the outcome of evolutionary time, the image of the modern mind: Mr. Palomar falling asleep holding in his dreams the image of a great white ape holding an old rubber tire...
...Connolly, 43, an account executive for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Birmingham, Mich., was staying on the tenth floor of the Maria Isabel Sheraton. "The building swayed five or six feet each way. We were holding on to the walls as it went. It would go all the way one way and you'd think it was going over and you'd be dead. Then the next time it would sway all the way the other way and you'd think this time it would crash. Finally it righted itself, and we all ran out on the street." There Connolly...