Word: cadillacs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Highlight of the festival was a premiere of the movie Your Cheatin' Heart, the life story of Singer-Songwriter Hank Williams, the "hillbilly Shakespeare." The songs on the sound track are sung by Williams' son, Hank Jr., 16, who wheels around town in the white Cadillac in which his father was found dead of a heart attack on New Year's Day 1953, at the age of 29 ("He just lived himself to death," the legend goes...
...pall when there is less left to deliver. Unionists call this the "high-hat issue" or "uppity unionism." To escape its onus, one U.A.W. troubleshooter in Pittsburgh refuses to wear white shirts, and a top officer of a food employees union says: "I wouldn't drive a Cadillac these days if you gave...
First he was the manchild, the impish chatterbox who dabbled in verse, ogled the girls ("foxes," he called them), drove around in a tomato-red Cadillac, and made everybody laugh when he announced that he was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world...
...share. With higher dividends for the first three quarters, that will raise G.M.'s big payoff from $4 a share last year to $4.45 this year, and give some 250,000 shareholders enough for a down payment on a new Chevy or even a '65 Cadillac. While G.M.'s calculated munificence will reverberate throughout the economy, the biggest individual beneficiaries will be five elderly men who had the good sense to become the largest shareholders in the firm. All but one of them got in very early, when both the company and U.S. income taxes were modest...
...satire on pornography, Drive, He Said is serious as all get out. Most of its fun is unintentional. Thus, in one chapter, Basketball Player Hector Bloom and his chick Olive spend a busy evening nuzzling each other outside a diner, are chased over hill and dale by a Cadillac jammed with knife-wielding apists (strangely, they seem to be baddies), make passionate love to celebrate their escape. Then Hector, "in his last thought before he curled into the grip of deepest sleep, yearned for the clean true feel of a basketball." UNFINISHED FUNERAL by Nicco Tucci. 192 pages. Simon & Schuster...