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...recalls, rags were mysteriously collecting in the family car. "I couldn't figure out what Tony was doing with these rags," she says. "It turned out he knew how to start the car and how to drive, but he couldn't figure out how to use the windshield wipers or defroster any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow, Steady and Heartbreaking | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...late to call the hostess, her [Harris's] thoughts seemed to slip into a new gear, a sort of emotional overdrive, electraglide, pantransoverride. "Luckily the next lines give us a clue as to Harris's real state of mind: "She listened to the slap-slap of the windshield wipers and though about nothing whatsoever...

Author: By Sophie A. Volpp, | Title: Behind the Lady Killer | 4/12/1983 | See Source »

...sites where people run over to pick new stones and bricks. No paving stones in Chicago. A guy is going past a Rolls Royce. He plants one foot ahead of him. Stops, pivots like a shortstop bringing his arm down in a big arch. His club takes out the windshield. Someone else opens the back door, rips out the phone or something, and leaves. Middle-aged people looking out from the lobby of the hotel and standing in furs on the street are visibly upset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weathermen're Shot, They're Bleeding, They're Running, They're Wiping Stuff Out | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...bombs; some had their tires slashed or were set afire. Although Capps was the only fatality, more than 50 others were injured, several seriously. Trucker Howard Abrams, 45, was shot in the chest while unloading his rig in Utah. A trucker in Michigan was wounded in the face by windshield glass when a shotgun blast hit his truck. And Melissa Sarsfield, 14, suffered a fractured skull when a brick bounced off a truck into her family's car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low Road to Protest | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...increasing tendency to replace the rules of the road with violent outbreaks. Items from the Houston police department's new statistical category-freeway traffic violence: 1) Driver flashes high-beam lights at car that cut in front of him, whose occupants then hurl a beer can at his windshield, kick out his tail lights, slug him eight stitches' worth. 2) Dump-truck driver annoyed by delay batters trunk of stalled car ahead and its driver with steel bolt. 3) Hurrying driver of 18-wheel truck deliberately rear-ends car whose driver was trying to stay within 55 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Red Light for Scofflaws | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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