A one lane blacktop departmental road passes alongside both estates.
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The blacktop bore no evidence of braking before the plunge.
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Dance on The Blacktop, however, is one disaster too far.
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Both the "Blacktop" and "Cobra" washes made it into my suitcase.
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Blacktop, the café down the street, is known for its $4 white
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Blacktop (1972), and harbors muted affinities with Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949).
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The pole suddenly broke, and the man fell hard onto the blacktop.
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We cruised summer blacktop at night across Arizona deserts looking for reptiles.
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County Road JJ, where the school bus accident occurred, will get new blacktop.
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Gesturing out at the beautifully remade blacktop, Benioff took a moment to crow.
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But then, they all went out to the blacktop ... and it was game on.
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With temperatures exceeding 90 degrees, the blacktop on which the carrier sat was hot.
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Tired of running on blacktop and sidewalks, especially as the summer sun beats down?
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"Blacktop Highway" prefers butterscotch, spooned and drizzled in the midst of a sexual frenzy.
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Basketball, on the other hand, is pretty much always played on hardwood or blacktop.
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Jack allowed his gaze to wander as Mike came toward him down the blacktop path.
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A few, like squirrels on two-lane blacktop, will lose all composure and become roadkill.
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With that $2,000 I can blacktop my driveway and I can fix up my house.
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He ran to where she lay, facedown, on the blacktop by a small car's bumper.
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To the first girl that kissed me after I chased her on the blacktop at recess.
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He walked up the blacktop path, past the office (deserted on Sundays) to County Route 225.
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They were parked on the shoulder of a stretch of unpainted blacktop alongside a whitewashed fence.
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It is a rectangle of blacktop surrounded by busy streets, including the famous Las Vegas Strip.
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A simple two-lane blacktop connects this remote part of Nevada with the rest of civilization.
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Death sounds like 40 robot-dog legs, marching together in unison across a lifeless blacktop parking lot.
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And sure, if the race is a straight shot on a fresh blacktop, I'll consider the supercar.
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We'll show you the picture of Bieber gamely gamboling up the blacktop a little behind the play.
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" And musician James Taylor gets reunited with the car from his cult classic film "Two Lane Blacktop.
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With a load in hand, he leapt from the blacktop to the metal bumper and into the van.
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A Lutheran church in Missouri has the right to obtain a state grant to resurface its playground blacktop.
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There are kids today copying that move out on the blacktop who weren't even alive to see it happen.
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We accepted this setback in a spirit of adventure, joining the other passengers on the blacktop of RN 11.
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Head first wriggling out onto the scorching blacktop as the aperture tries to decide what to do with their legs.
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"The only part of Olivia Richmond not reduced to veggie burger is Olivia's left arm on the blacktop," Violet says.
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Open blacktop was a breeze, with smooth cruising thanks to fine-tuned aerodynamics, extensive sound-deadening, and naturally muted motors.
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They went like a cloud over the fresh blacktop, through the gate and up the incline to County Route 9.
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About an acre of blacktop was replaced with synthetic grass; chain-link fences gave way to more appealing wrought iron.
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Phoenix, Arizona, is spread out over 50 square miles, and a seemingly endless grid of blacktop connects its 1.5 million residents.
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Other days, the expansive lot — part blacktop, part gravel — mostly sits empty in one of the poorest pockets of the city.
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He could blacktop a lot of driveways by selling those secrets — and he'd probably keep the supplies after finishing the job.
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Letting water wash a blacktop or what not could also wash insecticides and fertilizer into your sewer systems, polluting your water supply.
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It gets nasty, and when you zoom out it pretty much looks like a five-year-old arguing on a school blacktop.
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Early indications show another star-studded event that perfectly mixes the best of professional basketball with the best of its blacktop counterpart.
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So, so many kids fantasize about having their own sneaker one day as they hoist jumpers on blacktop courts in waning daylight.
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A few months ago, Sheron said, he recalled players scattering in fear when a gun fell from someone's backpack onto the blacktop.
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Thematically speaking, it would be a lie to say that Dance on the Blacktop represents a drastic departure from previous Nothing releases.
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"The Infinite Blacktop" is droll, savage and healthily unsettling, even at moments when it verges on becoming an essay about its own construction.
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"Whether you're in the church pew, in the sacristy or on the blacktop on the playground, it is the same vibe," she added.
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So a new startup has patented an idea they hope will bring down costs significantly, and help bridge the gap: glueing fiber to the blacktop.
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The kids on the blacktop don't let her see the illicit video they're all watching on someone's phone, because it would be blocked out anyway.
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Nothing's new album, Dance on the Blacktop, sounds like, well, Nothing, but with a deep tunefulness that casts the band's previous dreaminess in starker terms.
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You can see the blacktop is now painted blue, and slugged with a "Dream Chasers" logo and as well as some inspirational quotes along the sidelines.
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The Natchez Trace Parkway is one of the great drives in America, a 444-mile strip of two-lane blacktop, stretching from Nashville to Natchez, Miss.
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There is now a blacktop road with reflectors and a direct train line connecting pilgrimage sites in northern India to Rameswaram, a port town near Dhanushkodi.
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At 1 o'clock, inside a large white tent erected on the school blacktop, Benioff approached the lectern, a phalanx of mayors and other VIPs behind him.
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Sara is back at the blacktop of the same school, only now she's cool and dressed like a teenager who doesn't care what people think of her.
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Maya MooreCreditCreditMatteo Marchi/Getty Images JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — One of the greatest players in basketball drove down a narrow strip of blacktop called No More Victims Road.
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It's true, more or less, and this is the half of the experience that is quickly forgotten the moment you hit that blacktop at the end of Exodus.
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On our drive out to blacktop at the end of the day I was reminded, and not for the last time, that archaeology and anthropology are close cousins.
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Coach Macky and I met in early October on a typical outdoor court — fenced-in blacktop, metal backboards, rims with no nets — on Second Avenue and 23th Street.
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The two-lane blacktop rose vertiginously over the valley in relentless switchbacks, and cyclists must share it with RVs and SUVs whose cranky drivers were eager to head home.
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The public space has climbing equipment, fenced-in basketball and handball courts, and a blacktop softball field, arranged between a public school and a block of low-rise homes.
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There were also nifty audio details: dribbles that sound like a metronome, swishes that sound like rustling leaves, and a referee's whistle that sounds like nails on a blacktop.
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He didn't play bass on Dance On The Blacktop, but he brings a frontman's dynamism to the rhythm section, often playing center stage with Brandon and Nicky flanking him.
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The plush, 3-layer EVA (ethyl vinyl acetate) midsole and 403-mm heel-to-toe drop offers cushioning on a variety of surfaces, from mud or hardpack to blacktop.
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The previous owners of the house had ripped out its walls, banged around all day, left busted garbage bags of broken plaster on the curb, chalking up the blacktop.
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In the years to come, a fan would have to traverse a two-lane blacktop to remote Richfield, Ohio, to watch a roster of unknowns play a Cavalier home game.
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The round was led by Emerge, with participation from BoxGroup, Blacktop, Kaedan and Tectonic, along with InVision founder Clark Valberg, The Muse founder Kathryn Minshew and Sense360 founder Eli Portnoy.
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Williams, 37, rocked a snakeskin mini skirt, a lacy blacktop, and silver jewelry as she hit the catwalk, while little Olympia wore a black shirt accessorized with colorful Nike sneakers.
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This was 1971: Kurtz had just helped to produce a James Taylor road movie called Two-Lane Blacktop, and could get his hands on far better film equipment than Lucas could.
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Hunter S. Thompson published Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Route 66 film Two-Lane Blacktop was released, and some of the Grateful Dead's early "Road Trips" albums were recorded.
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The building was a dingy, concrete high-rise—a bleak remnant of Le Corbusier's dream of a Ville Radieuse, with strip malls and blacktop where the parks were supposed to be.
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When asked by reporters clustered on the blacktop outside the West Wing if Mr. Trump had command of the details of the negotiations, Mr. McConnell ignored the question and smiled blandly.
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While running in Kona, Hawaii in June 2010, he had expected mild weather and a scenic view, but instead ran on a hot blacktop highway with lava fields on both sides.
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There, unmistakably, was a traffic jam: cars and trucks, as far the eye could see, stacked up in a configuration that bore no clear relationship to the lanes painted on the blacktop.
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Mr. Dillon, who grew up in Astoria, had a penchant for picking fights, which were settled on the blacktop of the park near the middle school, several people who know him said.
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Behind Federico, the bodyguard posted on the corner dropped into a crouch as three ancient motorbikes accelerated out of the traffic surrounding the park and onto the café's side street, tires squealing on blacktop.
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And whoa, look at Hield again, cutting through a cluttered lane as if it were a wide-open slice of blacktop on a neighborhood court, for an easy layup that no one could stop.
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Los Angeles (CNN)Joe Biden was standing on a stage above a blacktop basketball court just off Obama Boulevard as he watched his path to the Democratic nomination, dismissed just days ago, open up.
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The sun resonated off the blacktop, and Sarah smiled at a woman who walked past her in the parking lot, certain that the woman could just tell by looking at her that she was crazy.
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So Rose and I parked on the side of the road, laced up our shoes in the back seat and jogged down the one-lane strip of blacktop at the center of the tiny village.
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Their crime is that their parents chose a parochial nursery for them, one which clearly wants its kids to have the same safe and ecologically innovative blacktop enjoyed by innumerable other kids around the country.
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Once underground, the scene abruptly changes from one of potholed blacktop and industrial grit to the more sanitized chrome and concrete industrial look ubiquitous to CrossFit "boxes," as they're called by the devoted, around the world.
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One of the Senator's aides had set up a lectern on the blacktop, and a few reporters were stationed in front of it, but most of those assembled lived on the block, in similar-looking houses.
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Here are some of the other biggest revelations from the famously private superstar: Shooting Hoops with Obama Clooney, 56, is known for holding court with distinguished friends around the world — and sometimes that court is the blacktop.
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Get The Infinite Blacktop from Amazon for $17.10 or Barnes & Noble for $23.40; get The Feral Detective from Amazon for $17.70 or Barnes & Noble for $24.29; or find both at an independent bookseller or your local library.
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Incestuous siblings, their Bible-quoting father, a stranded motorist and a menagerie of animals figure in "Blacktop Highway," a delightfully deranged one-man gothic horror spoof by John Fleck (1:30, closing on Saturday at Dixon Place).
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Making a humanoid monster the protagonist of a film could prove a risky gambit for maintaining audience sympathies, but director Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop) dictates the reactions to Iguana through the way he frames the actor's body.
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My fondest memories recall moments of gathering, eating with family, playing football with cousins and friends on the church's blacktop, and enjoying quiet laughs with other children about the way some church members would catch the Holy Ghost.
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When Jack arrived at the rental unit, the bigger man was not in the cab texting as he had been earlier in the day, but pacing back-and-forth on the blacktop, his breath visible in the cold.
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The shoulder of a highway, from blacktop to tree line, is the perfect setting for flowers that require full sun; it's a ribbon of meadow that unfolds before the eye for as long as the road goes on.
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I couldn't have been more passive had I been invisible, a ghost floating high above the blacktop, watching the other kids laughing and feeling surprised, just as any witness or casual observer might, by my own shame and silence.
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Happily, there's a way to see dramatic vistas without a hike that feels like a cardiac stress test: Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, a seven-mile blacktop road that leads cars and cyclists through the wooded hills and towering dunes.
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The New York Times captured the dynamic succinctly: When asked by reporters clustered on the blacktop outside the West Wing if Mr. Trump had command of the details of the negotiations, Mr. McConnell ignored the question and smiled blandly.
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With his spanking karategi and cowboy kiai , his weasel-sleek of hair and handlebars, he was a spectacle there in Midland, Texas, circa 1973, where the sun slammed the blacktop and the pump jacks beaked the background like prehistoric crows.
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Nearly three hours earlier, we'd set out from a trailhead just off a rapidly warming blacktop in the Chihuahuan Desert to climb an all-too-real, feel-the-burn, 353,500-foot ascent to scale the peaks of Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
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" It's an adventure that will trace the "Crystal Highway," named for all the broken windscreen glass scattered along the verges on a road of "rough conditions, corrugations, bulldust, bone-breaking rock" and, in calmer moments, "the hypnotic undulations of the blacktop.
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These gory finishing moves, pioneered by the infamous fighter, were the equivalent of blacktop trash talk for guys that couldn't dunk, the smack chatter of White Men Can't Jump adapted into a new medium, heightening the drama of the arcade scene.
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As the general approached microphones on the blacktop in front of the West Wing, one of his deputies responsible for coping with the fallout could be seen peering behind the pack of reporters to see how her boss's statement was being received.
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Unspooled inside it is the 1951 typescript of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," page after page of tracing paper taped together to form a single continuous sheet, the defining road novel of its time laid out before them like so much two-lane blacktop.
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It's hard to believe that a moody, dialogue-sparse, semi-plotless road movie in which Dennis Wilson and James Taylor set out to race Warren Oates across the country in vintage cars could ever be considered a mainstream picture, yet "Two-Lane Blacktop," screening on Sunday, exists.
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But ask me about its behavior at shriek-inducing handling limits while bounding around this circuit's blind corners, over hills and down dales, riding the world's most difficult blacktop dragon, and I can tell you: This Kia copes with all the looniness, and even does it with some elegance.
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This Saturday's free event, in which children will learn figure drawing by taking on the roles of both artists and models, takes advantage of "Summer Streets," the annual city government program in which nearly seven miles of New York blacktop are closed to traffic — and open to fun.
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The stranded driver seeks shelter at a nearby house — always a bad idea when you're a character in a gothic horror spoof, and even more so when it's as gory and gleefully dark as Mr. Fleck's delightfully deranged solo show, "Blacktop Highway," which soon layers video into the mix.
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One of the classic ways to form ties between rival geographies is simply to build a road linking them, and therein lies the politics behind the Pan-American Highway, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, which connects the United States and 13 of its neighbors with blacktop ligament.
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On our various drives, my friend and I spotted a little family of javelina lumbering across the blacktop, a coyote leaping effortlessly over a fence, numerous roadrunners dashing headlong across the pavement, and a golden eagle resting in some creosote along the side of the road, as if patiently waiting to cross.
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In April, West Virginia passed a law that provides loan guarantees to companies that expand broadband service, allows for microtrenching—a cost-effective technique where a shallow conduit is carved into roadways and then covered over with blacktop—to lay fiber, and makes it easier to get approval to attach internet cables to utility poles.
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Or maybe it's because I hear the drive and desperation that fuels their songs, from the recurring guitar avalanche of Guilty of Everything's "Endlessly" to the caustic black humor of the line "Young and dumb and full of tears" on "Hall On Palace Pier," a song from their new album, Dance on the Blacktop.
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One of the most exciting things about Sara Gran's THE INFINITE BLACKTOP (Atria, $218) is the way it uses all of these often restrictive neo-conventions to its advantage in order to create a completely original hybrid of mystery, thriller, contemporary noir, dark comedy and postmodern meditation about what it means to be a detective.
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It's not as if she was a newbie to the game either—before Ladyhawke blew up she was a member of Two Lane Blacktop and then Teenager (with Nick Littlemore, who later went on to form Empire of the Sun): Brown had lived longer with rock 'n' roll than without it, but while songwriting was an outlet, the cycle of promoting that art became an albatross.
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Uncle Drew conflates that idea with something almost mythic, a blacktop legend who walked away from the game because it stopped being as pure as he hoped it would be, and it briefly flirts with the idea that Drew can't handle the way the Rucker has become commercialized (though I missed the resolution of this plot point because — and I mean this literally — I paused to take a sip of water).
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Mr. Stanton's future cult status was further burnished by his modest yet memorable part in yet another Hellman film, the brilliant "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971), in which he plays a hitchhiker picked up by Warren Oates's driver, known as G.T.O. Dressed in denim and a cowboy hat, Mr. Stanton's hitchhiker immediately settles into the passenger seat as if to take a snooze, only to softly place a hand on G.T.O.'s knee.
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I came back to New York and was as thrilled as when I'd first come to live here: The bicyclist doing wheelies on Fifth Avenue; the homeless guy with the sign saying, 'Help me perpetuate my alcoholism'; the street worker who, when I was dressed up late at night after a black tie party and they're laying blacktop on Fourteenth Street, wordlessly offers me his hand and guides me across the street.
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