Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ringwald in particular combines cinematic charisma and unaffected behavior, as Goodgame discovered when she drove him to his car from a photo session at the beach. She became so involved in talking and listening to the music thumping from her tape deck that she was soon doing 60 m.p.h. in a 35-m.p.h. zone. "A motorcycle policeman pulled her over," says Goodgame, "and I anticipated an Oscar-winning performance." But instead of blandishing smiles, Ringwald soberly admitted speeding and took her citation. "As she wheeled back into the traffic," Goodgame says, "I asked why she made no appeal. 'Because...
When is a bank not a bank? One answer: When it is a car company. The Big Three automakers have long made car loans, but now they are lending money to other businesses, giving out mortgages and helping consumers finance everything from washing machines to vacations. The three auto giants all have financial subsidiaries that have become huge companies in their own right. With $75.4 billion in assets, General Motors Acceptance Corp. ranks among the largest U.S. financial institutions. In the past two years the assets of Ford Motor Credit Co. have grown 64%, to $31.3 billion, and Chrysler Financial...
...their faces. When the players got tired of hitting one another they sort of did a slow dance on the ice and the crowd got real quiet and then they started slugging each other in the face again and the roar of the crowd welled up like a stock car engine at the Firecracker 500: rrroooAAARRRR! the crowd said. Just like that: rrroooAAARRR! Then the players were thrown in the penalty box and the camera showed them spitting up blood and looking like Hello-I-Eat-Reinforced-Steel-Bolts-For-Breakfast. It was actually a pretty entertaining fight...
...policies at first. "Some people called me a little dictator, a little Hitler," he said. "I was fighting tooth and nail to clean up the department, and it seemed like everything I did got blowed out of proportion. It was all over hell." The marshal expertly maneuvered his squad car into a position to cut off the young bikers. Both got off with warnings, and the admonition that failure to correct their legal obligations would amount to $700 in fines next time...
...From a file drawer he fetched evidence from criminal cases his office has dealt with. The point was, it seemed, simple citations can lead to bigger things. One example: a bicycle obscured an auto license plate. The car was stopped, and it yielded eleven bags of a "brown mushroom substance I can't pronounce (psilocybin), although I know it's a dangerous drug," some marijuana and pills. Large cases or little, the marshal said, you have to be on your toes. Mothers used to come down to the saloons and leave their children outside on the benches until all hours...