Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From outside I think a lot of people think Harvard is elitist," says Charles G. Barnes '88 of Halifax, Nova Scotia. But he adds, "My father is a used car salesman. I didn't even think of applying until the end of grade...
...MAJORITY OPINION's enthusiasm for State Sen. George Bachrach's (D-Watertown) smooth rhetoric and flashy style is misguided. To anyone else on the outside looking in at the race for the Eighth Congressional District seat, the four front-runners look like four wheels on the same car...
...sleek convertible that General Motors is formally unveiling in Detroit this week looks a bit out of place wearing the ornate Cadillac nameplate. The car has no fins, no bulk, virtually no chrome, not even a backseat. In fact, the new Allante (price: about $50,000) looks more like a sports car than the kind of Cadillac young, wealthy car buyers can remember their grandparents driving. But that is precisely what its creators at GM had hoped. Determined to shed the stodgy image that has caused the company to lose so many upscale U.S. buyers to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar...
...bank had just taken Ernie's car and pickup truck. He was driving his son-in-law's sedan. "My teeth still need fixing, and I still can't see out of my glasses," Margie said. "I'm 69 years old now," Ernie said. "I have worked all my life from day one -- well, day seven. I started plowing when I was seven behind a double team...
...known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism. Kesey may have quit the literary major leagues but can still be an exciting writer, whether describing a rampaging billy goat or a fatal car wreck in Egypt: "It's two flimsy Fiat taxis just like ours, amalgamated head on, like two foil gum wrappers wadded together. No cops; no ambulances; no crowd of rubberneckers; just the first of those skinny street jackals sniffing the drippings...