Word: bmw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anachronistic look. There is a charming seediness about it, like a rundown old woman who meticulously cleans and presses her one and only dress. The crowded old French trolleys, with their paint peeling, still rattle about with a cheerful Gallic sound. Motorcycle cops with their tan uniforms use 1920s BMW machines...
...Grateful Dead. Last I heard, my Dead freak friends were laying in provisions for a long trek to Springfield in Straus' BMW, on which they've scrawled, "Garcia is God." The plan is to see the Dead twice, there and at Boston Garden. And I know a guy who knows another guy who's seen the Dead thirty five times in the last year or so. Okay. I don't mind the Dead, but the prospect of seeing one of those five hour "Evenings with the Dead," twice in one week has the same effect as being forced to view...
...ultra-American patriotism, the cadet seniors had saved up their base pay for four years in order to buy the ultimate symbol of traditional American brute power and gaudiness, a Chevrolet Corvette. GM's domination served as a fitting contrast to Cambridge, where such automotive monstrosities are rare and BMW's and Volkswagens are the only cars one seems to see. The fact that I have a BMW, however, makes the validity of this analysis open to serious doubt...
...postwar population was 480,000; today it is 1,350,000 and is growing at the rate of 30,000 to 40,000 a year. The economy, once bound to beer and tourism, is now worth about $17 billion a year. Biggest contributors: electronics (notably Siemens) and automobiles (notably BMW, with new headquarters that resemble a cluster of three engine cylinders). No business is hard-pressed, whether it be publishing (every seventh German book title is printed in Munich) or the clothing and fashion industries, where earnings have outstripped the beer business threefold...
Jumping into his chauffeur-driven BMW, he set off for the airport, frequently hitting 110 m.p.h. on the straightaways. Over his car radio, Figueres dictated his detailed instructions for "terrorizing the terrorists," who were members of the Nicaraguan National Liberation Front. Two hundred armed civilian guardsmen should surround the plane. The runway should be blocked, the plane's tires deflated. Don Pepe repeatedly shouted into the radio, "Boys, this...