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...with newsreels of the airship Hindenburg burning and stacked bodies in a concentration camp. And tragedy, of course, emanates from Warhol's multiple images of Marilyn Monroe that are so emblematic of the Pop genre. Warhol incorporated tragedy more explicitly using the repeated, silk-screened image of a fatal auto accident in his Orange Car Crash, as if death, too, were a mass-produced consumer good...
...board telecoms company Viasat foresees its customers shopping or downloading music while stuck in traffic jams. Carmakers call it "telematics" - interacting with services by means of text, buttons, touch screens, voice or sensors while driving. Is it a dream come true (Time in 1944 reported on an amphibious futuristic auto that let you "plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead"), or an attempt to stand out from the pack? Telematics can make driving easier and safer: voice activation means eyes stay on the road. Viasat and Tegaron both contact emergency services when prompted...
SEPTEMBER 1992 Sharp-suited Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca stars in his final ad for the auto giant. The tag line: "If you can find a better...
When credit-card companies want something really badly, what do they do? They pay cash, of course. And that's just what they did, along with a lot of banks, retailers and auto lenders who contributed millions of dollars to key members of Congress as well as to President George W. Bush's campaign and Inaugural festivities. Last week that generosity paid off, with interest, when the Senate passed a new bankruptcy law. The bill could generate billions of dollars in extra revenue for creditors by making it more difficult for Americans to walk away from debts and regain their...
Curled up on her living-room sofa, Rose Wendland speaks about her husband Robert in loving, admiring words--"very handsome, always well groomed." She describes the Stockton, Calif., auto-parts salesman as a self- taught mechanical whiz with an insatiable appetite for books. He was a devoted father, she says, who enjoyed nothing more than taking their three kids boating on the nearby Stockton delta...