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...less.I knew how to drive. In fact, I had been driving flawlessly all summer, excluding that one unfortunate incident with a squirrel that lived on my street. But he was only in a coma, and made a full recovery. I’m sure of it.I worked the blinkers like a pro, knew all the different speed settings of the windshield wipers, could make a mean three-point turn, and had even conquered the dreaded parallel-park maneuver. But apparently, the State of New York Department of Motor Vehicles just wasn’t impressed.Permit in hand and Driver?...
...armored only in innocence and determination and those qualities blinker him. He has nothing to compare Russian life to; as far as he knows, the whole world is as gray and unpromising as the territory he traverses. There is nothing sentimental in the way little Kolya Spiridonov plays him. Like almost all the other players in The Italian, he is not a professional actor and so he seems not to be acting at all; every encounter, whether cruel or kindly, is naturalistically (and neutrally) accepted and processed by him, after which he proceeds along...
...whizzed by doing 73 in a 55 mph zone. The deputy gave chase, his blue lights flashing, but the car accelerated quickly. It ran red lights, crossed double-yellow lines to pass other cars, and hit speeds exceeding 90 mph. Curiously, before every turn, the driver put on his blinker...
...room was packed with heavy-duty economic thinkers, not a blinker in the bunch. And the conversation was essentially the same as it has been for the past 20 years: the sky is falling; the budget and trade deficits can't be sustained. But now, the stakes have been raised by the cascade of contradictory Bush blinks-sharp tax cuts, exploding Medicare benefits, the Social Security hand grenade-plus the apparent disappearance of the Republican Party's traditional fiscal restraint. "The conventional wisdom is too cheerful," joked Maya Macguineas, the group's president, surveying the prevailing gloom. But when...
...from corporations and other opportunists. When he sees workers putting up telegraph poles, what is progress to others is an encroachment on his action. "By all means, let's plant poles all across the country!" he shouts. "Festoon the c___sucker with wires to hurry the sorry word and blinker our judgments! Ain't the state of things sorry enough? Don't we already face enough f____in' imponderables...