Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Harvard students chose, however, chose to leave the driving to themselves. They rented a car. The Cambridge Avis Rent-A-Car, one of the only rental companies in the area that rents cars to students under 25, had weekend reservations for 60 cars as of yesterday afternoon. The average number of cars rented on a typical Friday...
...would he like to come? -- then to his home. She reveals she is pregnant with his child; he renounces her. He arrives home one evening to find Alex chatting airily with Beth about purchasing their apartment now that they are moving to the country. She pours acid on his car hood, and still he cannot confide in Beth. Fretting at his living-room desk one night, he glances up at Beth reading a fairy tale to Ellen. He still believes in his picture-pretty life. To tell Beth about Alex would be to deface the greeting card. He must deal...
...tightfisted, but the evidence so far is hazy. Last week domestic automakers reported a brisk 10.8% increase in passenger-vehicle sales during the last ten days of October, compared with the same period last year. Those customers, however, may be people who had already intended to buy a car * and went ahead with those plans in spite of Black Monday. Many car dealers now say business is slowing by as much as 30%. Major retailers, who released October sales figures last week, mostly say business has proceeded at the same sluggish pace they were experiencing before the crash. Sears...
...scream is one of the indigenous sounds of city life, like an automobile alarm that whoops and heaves, then stops, leaving the question hanging like a hawk as to whether a car was broken into, or did its owner set off the alarm by accident, and then lay it to rest. With human screams, the question is more complicated, since screams are not mechanical or automatic. Did you hear that, Harry? What could it be? A scream of delight, of fright? Hilarity, Harry? Do you think that someone is laughing too hard? Could it be hysteria, madness...
...movie people, you're a bunch of spoiled brats!" yells a man whose car has just been rammed by a star's convertible. Yes, we nod in agreement, and they're phony too, and beneath the glamour not very happy. Tales from the Hollywood Hills, a trio of short-story adaptations set in Tinseltown during the 1930s, trots out all the beloved stereotypes while flavorfully recapturing Hollywood's legendary golden age. Then, boldly, the mini-series abandons the legend and goes for a more subtly shaded truth...