Word: cadillacism
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General Motors Corp. today said that it would stop building the last of the "boats" that first made Detroit famous. By year's end, the world's biggest car company will discontinue its once-beloved, rear-wheel drive behemoths (the Buick Roadmaster, Cadillac Fleetwood, Chevrolet Caprice and Impala). GM's Arlington, Tx., assembly plant, which makes the big cars, will switch gears and start churning out popular full-size pickup trucks instead...
...Correze, Chirac ran away from home at 17 and spent several months in the merchant marine. When he was 20, he studied at Harvard summer school, washed dishes at a Howard Johnson's in Boston, and became engaged (briefly) to a girl from South Carolina who had a white Cadillac convertible and called him "honey chile." He retains a strong affection for America and is in fact an American junk-food addict. "When you're in the U.S. with Chirac," says Foreign Minister Alain Juppa, "there's always a problem: as soon as he sees a fast-food place...
...that the 66-year-old Toma, a groundkeeper so renowned he has his own autographed rake, presided over a carpet all these years. "I count this as one of the greatest days of my life," he said before the game. Indeed it was Toma, arriving in a pink Cadillac and dressed in white tails, who threw out the first ball...
Jerry Lewis' character owns a carnivalesque Cadillac dealership. It's been a while since Lewis last hammed it up in a French film, but he obviously still thinks his behavior appropriate and funny. He even gets to call his new bride, Minnie (Paulina Porizkova), his "polish cupcake." The cast cannot muffle their laughs. They practically wink at the camera to show they are having a good time...
...show was to film a video for one of the four new songs that have been added to Springsteen's greatest-hits collection. The mood was convivial. After hours of filming, Springsteen shouted, "The heck with the video!" and he and the band joyfully launched into their old hit Cadillac Ranch...