Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quiet Touches. The new Rolls, called the Silver Shadow, has been changed in other respects. Somehow, the designers have been able to increase the interior room while decreasing the outer dimensions. The car is built in the latest "monocoque" principle-already used in the Jaguar and the Rambler-which combines the chassis and body into a single unit of construction. It also incorporates a number of engineering advances that have long been standard on some lower-priced cars, including independent suspension for all four wheels, power steering and hydraulic disk brakes-to which Rolls added its own quiet touch...
From Realms Remote. In a dubious compliment, London's Daily Mirror described the new Rolls as having a "Mod look," and the Daily Telegraph exulted that the car "has stepped down from some realm remote from ordinary things and is now 'with it.' " But the style changes shocked and saddened traditionalists. The magazine Auto-Journal observed that by bringing the car "into the classic line of everyman's car, Rolls no longer strikes the eye and thus loses a great part of its singularity and originality." Paris' Le Monde regretted that "Rolls is losing little...
...University of California's Davis campus to question the reality of objects by subjecting them to the pummeling of abstraction. Like many contemporary artists, he no longer respects any border between painting and sculpture. "Why do some people think a painting is more important than a car, or vice versa?" he asks. "Some ask how I can spend my time making these crazy things-and those same people are out plugging away at their lawn and all wigged out because their trees are dying...
...study, and his translation of the Essays is the best since the Florio translation of 1603 and infinitely more readable than that classic antique. But this book does not so much define Montaigne as scramble him. It is as if someone given nothing but the picture of an assembled car and its disassembled parts had set to work, knowing only that each part has to go somewhere. The result is a book that is repetitious, overladen with extraneous scholarship, and stuffed with names cited without explanation...
...Boston's most elegant address--1007 Avenue Louis Pasteur. Regrettably, elegance vanishes a few steps beyond the front door: the hallways are done up as a sort of Spanish dungeon, and the dining hall's best efforts are about comparable to those of Central Kitchens. Unless you have a car, the trip to Cambridge will take you 40 minutes on the MBTA. (Last year, a much-needed limousine shuttle was put into operation between the Medical School and the Yard, but it doesn't run after dark...