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How can cinema, a rickety old jalopy that started its motor in the early twentieth century, hope to keep pace with that?
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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
With its jalopy stalled in the dark Mountain West tunnel since 1999, San Diego State finally has managed (through remarkable circumstances beyond its control) to hire a mechanic who had a radical set of tools to fix it, and possibly get it the hell out of there.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
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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
With its jalopy stalled in the dark Mountain West tunnel since 1999, San Diego State finally has managed (through remarkable circumstances beyond its control) to hire a mechanic who had a radical set of tools to fix it, and possibly get it the hell out of there.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
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“Jalopy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jalopy. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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