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...shoplifting in order to devote full time to her husband, and Adam--realizing this means that he can have his wife and inanimate objects too--begins planning for a new baby and a new car, code-named the Farstar. (The baby, one presumed, will have to settle for Buick.) Adam and Erica kiss, in a car, in a driveway...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Hailey Finds The Fountainhead | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...much for little Buick, who won't see Poppa again until his sixteenth birthday, when he's presented with the keys to a 1987 Farstar Supreme with racing-striped window wipers and 792 cc's, shortly after which popps dies of a coronary in a traffic jam under the flaming spark plug, his last sight on earth being those electronic words, "Use A.C. Sparks and Watch Bonanza Every Sunday." But we leave this to Jacqueline Susanne...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Hailey Finds The Fountainhead | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...Possible. A man of rigid habits, "Gianni" Bucher had left his house in a residential section of Rio at precisely 8:45 a.m., and followed precisely the same route he always took for the 15-minute trip downtown to the Swiss embassy. As his big Buick cruised down a busy street, half-a-dozen gunmen in two cars forced it to a screeching halt. They mortally wounded Bucher's Brazilian bodyguard when he appeared to be reaching for a pistol, then pushed the ambassador into a waiting car and roared off. The last thing the chauffeur heard Bucher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Raising the Ransom Price | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

After a quick view of the remains, the police approached the aquarist and asked him if he would take it away. Sieswerda later said, "I told them, 'I got a '53 Buick and I just couldn't get too much of it in,' so I figured I'd take the head 'cause it looked to be the most interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sea-Serpent Exposed as Sunning Shark | 11/17/1970 | See Source »

...does speak of one trend in music in which they are certainly participating. We're moving away from rock, he feels, and back to the sounds of the 1956-59 period. "When you buy a Rolls Royce today," he asks, "you know what you're getting? A 1948 Buick." But it isn't simply a return to the past; rather, as he says, "we're trying to get that old feeling back and then add some of the new tricks we've been learning." Ike and Tina, with Phil Spector's help, have already fully recaptured the feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming Together With Ike and Tina Turner | 10/16/1970 | See Source »

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