Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automobiles. Not so their children. Asked by Vienna's mass-circulation Kurier to submit letters describing the driving habits of their fathers, several hundred schoolchildren, aged 9 to 14, handed down a nearly unanimous verdict: the Viennese male, normally mild-mannered, becomes a raging brute behind the wheel...
...Father's cursing starts right away. Then a car passes us, and Father curses the driver. He has to step on the brakes. When he starts again, we continue our excursion and our cursing." From a 14-year-old boy: "My father is a real rowdy behind the wheel. He has been stopped more than 40 times by his archenemy, the village policeman. I'm sure when I grow up I shall not be like that...
Through intermediaries, Jubin persuaded the police commissioner of the Palais to supply him and the Segards with a getaway car. They took along three hostages: the judge, a clerk and a secretary. With Jubin at the wheel, a black Renault sped off into the night, followed by two police cars and several autos filled with reporters. Unable to shake his pursuers on a wild ride through Paris, Jubin finally brought the car to a screeching halt, jumped out and yelled: "If you don't stop following me, I'll shoot a hostage." The police and the newsmen turned...
...example is Escher's Waterfall (1961). A water mill with columns that carry the mill stream above the wheel? Not quite. On close examination, the building is incredible. The water is flowing uphill. The columns and the millrace could never be built: they are contradictory. So Escher's water mill, turning in perpetual motion through a kind of dimensional warp, becomes a vivid warning that art is not reality...
...stop. Nosseck next took his 1970 Firebird 400 to Barris, had him plunge through the roof with his acetylene torch and put in a sun roof, apply heaters (great phony silver pipes coming off the head of the engine, exiting from the sides of the car behind the front wheel, zipping, shiny chrome tubes, down the sides of the car and fastening just in front of the rear wheels), a mammoth hood scoop and delicate pinstripes all over to underline the changes...