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...word. GM does not have a p.r. problem, it ; has a car problem." Peters and other detractors maintain that consumers have been turned off by GM's lack of innovation and its look-alike designs, which have made it hard to tell a Chevrolet Celebrity from the more expensive Buick Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogerama Comes to the Waldorf | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...enough to make John Cougar Mellancamp cry "Oh Boy." If he sees the new Ford ad, he might let out "Oh Buick." Although "It's So Easy (To Buy Tercel)," it is not easy to listen to these rock and roll classics remade and then overplayed. Roll Over Buddy Holly...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: It's So Cheesy | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

Hugh Welch is a Buick salesman in the small Michigan town where he was born and raised. One Fourth of July he, his wife and two small daughters have visitors: Hugh's younger sister Dorsey, an astrophysicist, arrives with her young son Noah, who is deaf, and her husband Simon, an actor. The day is hot. Hugh and Dorsey buy fireworks from a woman who remembers them both as children. Supper is served. The pyrotechnics go off without a hitch. Dorsey explains why Noah likes the cherry bombs: "He can feel their shock waves with his skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Regressions First Light | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

During one Monday-evening binge, Hagan, 23, and his "home boys" decided to have some sport with a rival gang. Flushed with bravado, five of them piled into a blue Buick and sped toward enemy turf. There they spotted four teenagers, two of them girls, standing at a corner in front of a cinder-block wall covered with gang graffiti. Hagan grabbed a semiautomatic rifle and, with a fellow home boy known as "Baby Monster," strolled to the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life And Death With the Gangs | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...kids and a lot of birthday parties." But right now, the dilemma is over what car grille to order for the fireplace in the living room. "I'm looking for a '60s Chrysler," says Badanes, "but I could live with a '51 Buick if I could hinge all that stuff." He points to a picture of the Buick's metalwork front. "Remember," says Adamson, "the guy wants headlights that work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Homes with Gusto | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

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