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Visits by this jalopy to a grandmother carry memories of a seashore where the barbed wire and antitank blocks are just being cleared away, and where rock pools shine to his boy’s eye with secret, depthless life.
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Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
How can cinema, a rickety old jalopy that started its motor in the early twentieth century, hope to keep pace with that?
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
What the Aztecs need is to turn the most boring offense in the school’s modern day history into an exciting adventure, and Lewis goes 100 mph, which is 100-mph faster than Hoke’s jalopy.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
Kids in jalopies cruised at night, listening to Mexican pirate radio.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
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Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
How can cinema, a rickety old jalopy that started its motor in the early twentieth century, hope to keep pace with that?
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
What the Aztecs need is to turn the most boring offense in the school’s modern day history into an exciting adventure, and Lewis goes 100 mph, which is 100-mph faster than Hoke’s jalopy.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
Kids in jalopies cruised at night, listening to Mexican pirate radio.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
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