Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the TPF had scattered the crowd of 80 persons blocking the fornt door of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Redgate's home, Suffolk County Deputy Sheriffs served a warrant, and movers began loading furniture from the house onto a truck. Mrs. Redgate has long been a spokesman for the Allston families in their attempts to avoid eviction...
...demoralize the French and many French critics later attacked the film for its anti-French sentiments. But these criticisms missed the point. Clouzot is not anti-French, but mocking the human condition. His choice of a Corsican (Yvcs Montand), a Frenchman, an Italian, and a German for the four truck drivers makes his depressing judgment apply to all humans...
...opened the night before in nearby Pittsfield and had been roundly snarled at by two local critics. If Arlo knew, he didn't care. He was a married man now, and what mattered was taking care of the roses, buying a plow for his four-wheel-drive truck and rounding up those puppies...
Table Volcano. A big, burly man who looks like a scholarly truck driver or an agile Bacchus, Oldenburg is shy but not modest. "I am a magician," he says. "A magician brings dead things to life." His sculptures of food, for example. Typical, terrible American cuisine fascinates him, the kinds of things dieters like Oldenburg himself try to avoid: a wedge of pecan pie, a banana sundae, racks of assorted pastry, ice cream, cheeseburgers. Made of plaster, slathered with lush enamel paint, these goodies actually seem ready for the consumer's fork and spoon. But like four-color advertisements...
...crossing. Steinway, a commercial street in the working-class area, could pass for the main avenue of a decaying Middle West town. On this stage, all parts of the overture sound simultaneously: an ersatz locomotive clangs and toots; an accordionist squeezes out The Sidewalks of New York; a sound truck emits the appropriately upbeat Buckle Down Winsocki...