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...Motor Co. into the bosom of the general public wide track yachts, highway cruisers, gold-plated luxo-boats which drank Arab blood and ferried the rich and damned descendants of the former rootless races--Jews, yes, and Pilgrims too, as well as the sons of slaves! In the funeral Cadillac, all men are equal! What satisfaction for the poor to function in this process as a sacred ministry of leveller priests on the assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point...
...what truth could the eager boy see through the window of an azure tinted windshield? Cruising through the neon-tinted streets as boy, his life blurred imperceptibly so the '57 Chevy he started out in became that same black Cadillac and he was indeed on the way to Shangri...
...this is enough to alienate about anyone. (Except Richard Nixon, apparently, who is said to enjoy both songs, along with Johnny Cash's "Welfare Cadillac": this spring Haggard played at Mrs. Nixon's birthday celebration, on stage in front of an enormous, draped American flag). Even if Merle Haggard's significance as a cultural figure had anything to do with this right-wing gibberish, spewing quotations from these songs isn't likely to win many converts...
...College. But such moments are rare. Surprisingly little of the dialogue, or even the slang, has dated. And the characterizations -- the hostile policemen, the guy who lives downstairs ("I see the cars go by. I see the Fords. The Chevies. The Datsuns. I see the Datsuns. And the odd Cadillac, I don't miss them."), the pair of put-on artists, the bemused graduate student in mathematics who has lived in the house for three months without noticing that it doesn't include a cat and who tries to set himself afire to protest the Indochina war, the preener...
...impoverished Memphis teenager, Singer-Composer Isaac (Hot Buttered Soul, the theme from Shaft) Hayes lived one summer in a junked car. Should the necessity arise again, Hayes, 31, has ensured that he will have all the comforts of-er-home. While seven cars, including his gold-plated 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, rest in his Memphis garages, Hayes tools around the country in his latest acquisition: a 30-ft. silver-gray Cadillac limousine that can be started by remote control in cold weather. Included in the $36,000 price tag: a red velvet love seat, bar, refrigerator, color TV and stereo. Plus...