Word: begats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buyers with the elan of a three-card monte dealer by spinning off the Mustang and Continental Mark series from existing chassis combinations. Now he is trying to do the same thing with virtually an entire line of cars. The $5,900 Dodge and Plymouth 1981-model K-cars begat the $8,100 1982 Chrysler LeBaron and Dodge 400, the $12,300 Chrysler LeBaron convertible (see box) and the 1983 Chrysler E Class and Dodge 600, which sell for $9,000 to $12,000. By stretching the K-car, he produced the luxury Chrysler New Yorker...
...Broadway had a book of "begats," it would read that show biz begat show biz begat show biz. Narcissism can be a powerful intoxicant. It has fueled some remarkable musicals. Think of Gypsy and, more recently, A Chorus Line. Dreamgirls is not quite on that level. Its heart pumps more grease paint than blood. But it demonstrates that you've gotta have heart just to be in show biz. For every triumph savored, there is a numbing disaster, for every dream a nightmare; and the everlasting need is to go on striving, surviving, for that is the core...
...schedule often reads like the Book of Genesis-or the Daily Racing Form. Happy Days begat Laverne & Shirley; Dallas begat Knot's Landing; Soap begat Benson. Now Alice has begat Flo. Polly Holliday has left Mel's Diner in Phoenix to open up her own bar, Flo's Yellow Rose, in her old home town, Cowtown, Texas...