Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traffic keeps border patrols busy from Brownsville, Texas, to Chula Vista, Calif. Last week patrols near San Antonio intercepted two camper trucks, one containing 15 wetbacks, the other 17. All but a handful of the illegal immigrants are simply sent back across the border, but many return. They have become a special curse to the A.F.L.C.I.O. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which is waging an uphill struggle to organize migrant laborers. Illegal workers, the union charges, have been hired by union-hating farmers to break strikes. About 2,200 wetbacks have been arrested in the past six months in California...
...steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated 1,500 navigational snags, but boatmen still grumbled that the river's "bottom is too near its top." By the 1870s, the snags, sandbars and erratic flow were stifling traffic along the Arkansas, and when rails spanned the river at the turn of the century, even the steamboats vanished...
...Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden," Painter Franz Kline once remarked, "worrying about the noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half." He painted the noise, in hurtling compositions that were apt to bear the names of locomotives or place-names of his native Pennsylvania coal country. Together with his fellow abstract expressionists, he split the Manhattan art world of the early 1950s into two camps. The conservatives damned them because their work not only obliterated...
...Traffic thunders on. When the Whitney Museum last week unveiled Manhattan's first Kline retrospective since his death in 1962, the survivors from both camps were all but outnumbered by a newer generation of museumgoers. This generation grew up looking at abstract expressionism, and although it has no difficulty in accepting Kline's premises, it has grown vastly more critical of his output. O.K., the newcomers say, strolling from picture to picture, we all know he was a landmark, a titan, a pioneer. But did he paint good abstractions or bad ones...
...self-conscious. Too many zoom shots from point of view. Some angles which scream Staged, viz. shooting a collapse from behind a sofa so that suddenly the subject drops from sight. Some over-cute editorializing: Emilie walking beneath a marquee which proclaims "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; Elizabeth walking beneath a traffic sign which reads Playground. Hardly worth getting upset about...