Search Details

Word: windshield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...odometer read 85,723, the generator and oil-pressure gauges glowed red in the dashboard. In the driver's seat was an alert, life-size white plaster driver, both hands on the wheel, right foot hovering over the accelerator. As viewers looked over his shoulders at the windshield, they shared a Cineramic ride through city streets, as lights, cars and bright neon signs whizzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: One for the Road | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...bring off the joy ride, Segal had rigged a small film projector and mirror arrangement to the right of the cab, which beamed the movie onto the truck's frosted windshield. Watching it, one housewife confided: "That's the way my husband drives." Chuckled a young executive: "I go through that every night." Juror Martin Friedman, director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, put it another way: "I found it very moving. Actually," he said, "by treating the man almost as a ghost, as a calcified figure, Segal presents you with reality, then questions the existence of reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: One for the Road | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...Vanguard pulled out pistols, shot down Head, then his partner, Temporary Detective Constable David Wombwell, 25, as he rushed to help. Still in the squad car, Constable Geoffrey Fox, 41, gunned his engine in a desperate attempt to run down the killers; a bullet through the windshield stopped him dead. Before the Vanguard roared off, said a witness, one black-bearded hood coolly "got into the police car and drove over one of the men on the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Bullets on Bra/brook Street | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...Rhapsody in the Rain, for example, was banned by many radio stations because, as the program director for WLS in Chicago, Gene Taylor, explains, "There was no question about what the lyrics and the beat implied-sexual intercourse in a car, making love to the rhythm of the windshield wipers." A tougher test is the Rolling Stones' I Can't Get No Satisfaction, which has sold 4.5 million copies, with Lead Singer Mick Jagger wailing, "I'm tryin' to make some girl." Difficulty was, Tagger's diction is so slurred that many stations unwittingly played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Going to Pot | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

George Romney, LL.D., Governor of Michigan. He is one American leader who believes that vision is to be found by looking through the windshield rather than into the rearview mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 17, 1966 | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Previous | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | Next