Word: capris
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAVE THE TIGER. Jack Lemmon wakes in the morning screaming-and he is worse off than he knows. Before the day is out he will have to see about having his clothing factory in Long Beach burned for the insurance money; introduce the new fall line of Capri Casuals; endure a brief nervous breakdown; inhale a joint or two of cannabis; sleep with an aging love child off the Sunset Strip; dream of a pop apocalypse populated by everyone from Bobby Kennedy to James Earl Ray; and recite lines like "I wanna walk in the kind of rain that never...
Lemmon, rather less febrile here than usual, portrays Harry Stoner, a middle-aged businessman of average rapacity who has fallen victim to anomie and his accountant. Down at Capri Casuals, money is as scarce as affection at Harry's house. His only child, a daughter, is away at boarding school in Switzerland, and he and his wife have not exercised their connubial rights in some time. Harry can't stand it. But it is also difficult to stand Harry. His soulless soliloquies and fearless superficiality thoroughly sour the movie...
...Imports that offer basic transportation and not much else are down: Volkswagen sales are off 14% this year, and Toyota volume has declined 6%. Foreign-made cars that also offer a touch of luxury are selling much better. The great success story among the imports is the Capri, which has a 53% sales gain and now accounts for one in every 20 imports sold in the U.S. Score another for Detroit: the Capri is made by Ford in West Germany...
...tipped him that the drug company's managers were urging workers to write their Congressmen to express opposition to a bill that would set up a federal consumer-protection agency; a worker at Ford apparently put Anderson on to safety defects in the company's "sexy" Capri compact. This month in Harper's, Kermit Vandivier, a former B.F. Goodrich data analyst, discloses that he told the FBI about fraudulent test reports on airplane brakes that he says he had been ordered to write; after the FBI started a Government investigation, Goodrich replaced $70,000 worth...
Automakers face another problem that is increasingly common in U.S. industry: domestic cars contain a variety of parts produced abroad. Ford officials announced that the price of its '72 Pinto, Capri and Pantera models will be hiked to reflect the surtax on such imported parts as engines and transmissions. But on domestically produced cars, the big three rolled back scheduled increases averaging about 5% on their entire '72 line. The lower prices will hit hardest at financially troubled Chrysler (1970 losses: $7,600,000). Generally, Ford and G.M. officials are hoping to make up for the freeze with rapidly increasing...