Word: windshields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often brawled publicly with Barrymore, and she once tried to run down Actor Gary Lockwood with her car. When he jumped on the hood, she sped down Sunset Boulevard trying to shake him off while he pleaded with her through the windshield. "Tuesday did some wild, wild things and screwed up many, many guys," says Ryan O'Neal, a longtime friend. "She's highly sexual. It's what makes her interesting on the screen...
...Park Avenue. "The balls," notes Oldenburg, "are an at tempt to make tangible my feeling that Park Avenue is a dangerous street where you can get run over and killed very easily. The balls intensify and monumentalize this danger." Another, for Grant Park in Chicago, is a pro digious windshield wiper, slapping back and forth between two long rectangular pools. Says the artist: "These serve as swimming pools for the city's children...
...friendliness of a provincial town, its streets filled with hundreds of bicycle-driven rickshas, each one painted with flowers and proudly flying the new flag of Bangladesh. In fact every single car in Dacca flies the national flag, and many have Mujib's photo on the front windshield. The city is dotted with half-completed construction projects, including the new capital buildings designed by U.S. Architect Louis Kahn. Some day, when and if they are completed, Dacca will find itself with a collection of public buildings that might well be the envy of many a richer and more established...
...recognizable as an auto, while the bigger car sustained relatively moderate damage. In the Chevrolet crash, a dummy placed in the Impala only struck its head against the dashboard, but the dummy in the Vega was beheaded by a section of the hood that was hurled back through the windshield...
Since it's impossible to keep thieves from getting in--smashing the windshield is a convenient last resort--it's not wise to leave anything of value inside a car. If it has to be in the car, it's safer in the trunk than on the seat...