The United States marines created a Hollywood Freeway-style traffic jam today as they set up a checkpoint and searched car to car in preparation for their final push into the city.
Richard Duran, who oversees operations at El Paso's busiest crossing, the freeway-style Bridge of the Americas, said the installation of the machines to read the laser visas might actually lengthen inspection times because inspectors checking cars full of passengers would have to swipe several visas through the machine.
The next run has a wide, freeway-style fairway; the basket is 500 feet away.
Screenwriter George Gatins and director Scott Waugh award themselves a bit of an ancestor-worship moment with a clip from Steve McQueen in Bullitt, but basically they seem to be remembering Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop, along with quite a few of the old-style freeway chase/airborne-car extravaganzas such as Smokey and the Bandit.
Can also be swept back rockabilly-style for late-night freeway pursuits.
The place was on the fourth floor of a vintage Craftsman-style building overlooking the 101 freeway.
Instead of nacho boats and curly fries, health-minded skiers at Copper Mountain, a family-style resort just down the freeway from a glitzier Vail, will find Thai chicken wraps and portobello mushroom sandwiches with olive tapenade.
But pig-in-python style, even China's brand-new freeway system cannot handle the volume.
"Unfortunately," he added, while navigating the Ventura Freeway en route to the Judge Advocate General's colonial-style Falls Church, Va., headquarters (actually the San Gabriel Chapter of the American Red Cross), "there are a few problems".
A group of 20 women, some sporting messages with the word "unity," temporarily halted traffic along the 405 Freeway in Costa Mesa on Friday afternoon in a flash mob-style demonstration.
