white-line

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

Vanishing Point is the ultimate ode to the need for speed, a ferocious white-line race dedicated to "the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of soul," the driver Kowalski Barry Newman, making a high-speed run from Colorado to San Francisco with the police in pursuit.

Archive 2008-11-01 Ed Howard 2008

Vanishing Point is the ultimate ode to the need for speed, a ferocious white-line race dedicated to "the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of soul," the driver Kowalski Barry Newman, making a high-speed run from Colorado to San Francisco with the police in pursuit.

Vanishing Point Ed Howard 2008

Route 66 cut through the center of town as a streamlined reminder of what was out there to the west, and the trucks roared through town day and night, slaves to hope and white-line fever, heading for California or just somewhere else.

Excerpt: A Strong West Wind by Gail Caldwell 2006

BEFORE: The old white-line pad was ugly and had hardened over the years.

How To Restore an Old Side-by-Side 2005

Don Wise stood up and the first slide was a photo of cow dung on the white-line of the road that had been run over by a car.

Advice to ID critics: Act like politicians 2005

Point #3: Don Wise stood up and the first slide was a photo of cow dung on the white-line of the road that had been run over by a car.

Geological Society of America Meeting on ID/Creation. - The Panda's Thumb 2005

My old friend Lucile Rosenbloom (from whom I acquired some non-kitsch, the "Deaths Door" white-line etching and the Laocoön engraving) had one, as did the New York book dealer John Fleming, now also deceased.

Introduction 2003

His willingness to experiment in graphic art to create visual effects that exploited the tools and language unique to that medium, as in "woodcut-on-pewter" and white-line etchings, or simulated alla-prima painting, as in color prints, spilled over into painting, as is evinced by the experimental paintings in the Descriptive Catalogue, such as the Spiritual Form of Nelson, and his so-called "tempera" and "fresco" paintings, which capture the visual effects of color printing.

Introduction 2003

Unlike the hooves of wild equids, those of domesticated horses are smaller, their walls more crumbly and prone to abscesses, white-line disease, and other problems that lead to lameness.

The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003