Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other pictures are more emphatically striking: a large color photograph by Paul Souza, shot through a tilting windshield, containing a snaking road, dark cliffs and, above the foreshortened yellow strip of the car's hood, an exultant view of sunstruck clouds--a kind of visual trumpet blast. Essentially the same compositional strategy, and the same dramatic clarity, are on view in a black-and-white photograph of an industrial wasteland by Roswell Angier: in the foreground, framed by a windshield and side-window, we see the blurred silhouette of a rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian...
...ocean racing. Early the next morning we joined the lines of commuters heading into Minneapolis. He did not look forward to facing the rest of the bank's directors, he was tired and felt as he had prior to "a previous emotional altercation." A light rain on the windshield mixed the city with the sky, making the outline of the buildings nearly indistinguishable and their colors a forbidding grey. He mumbled of Conrad, of Zen and motorcycle maintenance, of his friend Robert Pirsig and his aircraft. I opened the door at the air terminal and turned to shake his hand...
...windy cliffs under a full moon. Look at the moonbow, said Sammy, counting the colors. I wish we had a tape recorder, said Rick, shivering in the silence. Grotesque elephant rocks lumbered into view. Sammy looked at the road, the dotted center line, but the shadows crept across the windshield. I don't want to sleep, said Rick. Tough, said Sammy. They fought...