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  • The "Blacktop" will be the site of a new teen basketball league started by MAD DADS and the Potter's House Church.

    Action News: Top Stories 2009

  • Kenneth McNeil, 15, is one of the many players who count a trip to the "Blacktop" as a nightly ritual.

    Action News: Top Stories 2009

  • Behind a small building off Normandy Boulevard sits a place simply known as the "Blacktop".

    Action News: Top Stories 2009

  • Codenamed 'Blacktop', because it aimed to give laptops the same fast functionality as a BlackBerry when it comes to tasks such as email ( 'Blacktop' is of course a portmanteau of

    APCmag.com - All Articles 2009

  • There's a temptation to liken the novelist and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer to one of his great anti-protagonists, like the gearheads in the 1971 film "Two-Lane Blacktop," lost to white-line fever in the vast expanse of a country that doesn't seem to exist anymore.

    On the Road Again Steve Dollar 2011

  • The retrospective doesn't only feature Mr. Wurlitzer's celebrated collaborations with maverick directors like Monte Hellman ("Two-Lane Blacktop"), Sam Peckinpah ("Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid") and Alex Cox ("Walker") It's a bit of an extravaganza, as well.

    On the Road Again Steve Dollar 2011

  • "Monte is the master of the low road," screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer said recently, reflecting on his experience working with Monte Hellman on 1971's "Two-Lane Blacktop."

    Imported and Homegrown Steve Dollar 2011

  • "Monte is the master of the low road," screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer said recently, reflecting on his experience working with Monte Hellman on 1971's "Two-Lane Blacktop."

    Imported and Homegrown Steve Dollar 2011

  • The difference is black and white: Blacktop this time.

    City Plows Through the Storm Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • I discussed these various scenarios with my friend, and agreeing we didn't want to find ourselves next on the Green River Killer's roster of victims, we came up with some ground rules: No single men (I hadn't seen Two-Lane Blacktop so ...), no young couples, and no groups of guys.

    Kim Morgan: The Diary Of A Preteen Hitchhiker 2010

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