Word: capris
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...grounds outside Detroit, which until recently was covered bumper to bumper by part of Chrysler's stock of unsold cars. Chrysler's backlog has dropped from 350,000 to 300,000. Some models have been in especially heavy demand. Orders for Ford's sporty German-built Capri, which lists at a basic $3,566 and carries a $500 factory rebate, have been so great that dealers are scouting round the U.S. to find cars and are warning buyers that they may have to wait weeks for delivery...
Vulgar Crowds. Despite its manifest disadvantages, Pantelleria has developed something of a tourist trade. Because it has been so ill-favored by nature, it has a tranquillity few other islands in the Mediterranean can boast. In the past several years, wealthy Italians eager to avoid the vulgar crowds at Capri or Amalfi have discovered it. So have moviemakers. Except for the untoward events of World War II, about the only thing of note that has happened in Pantelleria in the past 2,000 years or so was the shooting of a pornographic movie, Thank You, Mrs. P., two summers...
...announced his intention not to run for President, but Joan Kennedy's personal misfortunes continue. Driving in McLean, Va., in the early afternoon last week, she failed to react in time to a traffic signal and plowed her white, 1971 Pontiac convertible into the rear of a green Capri, which in turn collided with still another car. No one was injured, although the damage to the three cars was estimated to be close to $1,400. Joan was exceedingly apologetic, unhappy but not tearful...
...expanding the state's business and industry, from promoting its tourist attractions to Canadians, to seeking investment capital from visiting Japanese businessmen, to spreading the word to farmers about new agricultural methods. As usual, the general is double-timing on his new job. Driving alone in his Ford Capri or accompanied by a retired Army colonel who serves as an aide, Westmoreland spends an average of two days a week on the road, and has already visited all of South Carolina's 46 counties at least once...
...very possibility of consistent and linear thought. Yes, lies in boxes stacked one by one along the ocean in a strip twenty miles long. Neon-emblemed inns and palaces, similar as a strip of concrete dolls notched with the original names of romance glowing from pastel tubes. Aku-Tiki, Capri, Ritz, Rivera, Bali Hai, Lodi. Still the ever more poignant essence remained, barely visible to this feeble romantic shell, his timbers charred by the explosion of the last decade and more recently ravaged by the imperative of honesty unleashed by the uncloaking of lies, the blind rat revealed for what...