Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Horowitz had rewired his car so that the seat-belt warning sounds when the oil pressure is low. "That's much more important to know," he says, "and besides, I figure we'll wear seat belts anyway." He hooked up another switch to a fan, so he can cool his engine in heavy traffic, but otherwise he hasn't meddled with the European engineering, which seems clever...
...flying car, in fact, is much like what is wrong with The Man with the Golden Gun and what has been wrong with the whole Bond series for a while. Overtricky, uninspired, these exercises show the strain of stretching fantasy well past wit. The best Bonds, like the car that twirls, were sly without quite getting silly. The best Bonds also had Sean Connery, whose absence is sorely felt here. An actor of considerable resource, Connery played 007 with just the right combination of conviction and detachment. He also had a self-mocking aplomb that would be hard to duplicate...
With money tight and auto sales plunging, George Nouhan, a partner in a Chevrolet dealership in Hamtramck, Mich., began advertising that he would consider anything, anything at all, as a trade-in on a new car or truck. From around the country, inspired offers have been pouring into Hamtramck, a factory town encircled by the city of Detroit...
...Actress Anne Bancroft (friends jokingly call them Beauty and the Beast), Brooks lives quietly in Beverly Hills. When he is not working on a script he works on his friends ("If he's not feeding you," says one of them, "he's telling you what kind of car or clothes to buy"). He is still a passionate reader, especially of 19th century Russian novels: "My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you goddam genius...
...metal. At one second past midnight on Dec. 31, she signed an invoice for a quarter-ounce wafer, bought for $52.79 through a publicity-minded Southfield, Mich., coin dealer; he obtained the wafer from a fellow dealer in nearby Windsor, Canada, and had it delivered to his shop by car and helicopter...