Now that his career as an insect fight promoter and junior-museum assistant are over, he wonders if the young American fighting bugs have suddenly turned sissy, made soft by decades of too many flies to eat, too little incentive, too many free rides on the wind shields of high powered cars?
Interpreting a dream he had in the 1930s, he compared freedom in the creation of art to "driving a high-powered car — you know that you have an enormous reserve of power behind you, and when necessity requires, or for your pleasure, you can lift it out to your heart's content, but never for a moment must you let it out from your absolute control".
Not too far away, in Milan, Palomba Serafini Associati envisioned a "high-powered car of the sea" when designing Jolly Roger for the Benetti Design Innovation Project of 2012.
Much of its Wednesday news conference was spent touting a lineup peppered with high-powered cars, sport utilities and even a version of its Dodge Caravan minivan aimed at male buyers and labeled a "man van".
(See: "EU Split Over Car Emissions Rules") And the European automotive industry is itself concerned that such rules could lead to the shrinking of production of medium-and high-powered cars, job losses and a significant dent in profits.
The peppy "High Powered" sounds like a car braking over and over again; the smooth soul on "Can't Get Right" recalls the production that a youngish Kanye West contributed to Scarface's 2002 release "The Fix," the album on which Scarface first re-emerged as an invigorated late-career rapper.
Nevertheless, across the manufacturer-provided information, the results were varied: sports cars, muscle cars and high-powered luxury cars.
Stewart and Ward shared a love of racing sprint cars: high-powered, winged cars built for running on short oval or circular dirt and paved tracks.
One tribute to it, indeed, came from Maserati, a producer of high-powered sports cars, which said the car confirmed Italian genius for designing automobiles.
Test drive a high-powered race car, of course, at the Nascar races in Darlington.
There's nothing like a high-powered, pretty car made in very low numbers to run up prices.
