Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naturally brushes past the author's frequent avowals that as a young man he wrote very badly. But late in the book he quotes a description of the Great Smokies written in 1926, and sure enough it is just awful: "From their highest elevation bannered a stilly chrome wash of startled light...
...those are Bigelow carpets on the floor . . . Ron had the whole interior ripped out and redone. He paid twenty-eight hundred for the car, put another four thousand in it." The door hinges are lacquered as shiny black as the rest of the car; the engine is all gleaming chrome. But Ron has gone too far: it is so perfect that he doesn't dare drive it. He takes another car to work and leaves his darling cuddled for months on end in its supersoft dust cover...
...took his 1970 Firebird 400 to Barris, had him plunge through the roof with his acetylene torch and put in a sun roof, apply heaters (great phony silver pipes coming off the head of the engine, exiting from the sides of the car behind the front wheel, zipping, shiny chrome tubes, down the sides of the car and fastening just in front of the rear wheels), a mammoth hood scoop and delicate pinstripes all over to underline the changes...
...daughter Debbie, 20, an otherwise typical California girl: "I don't do much. I just swim, watch TV, see my friends." But Debbie plunged $4,000 into a 1958 Triumph 3 she had picked up for $75. "It's got a new engine all done in chrome, new seats and interior, seats are diamond button tucked, the body Mercedes chocolate brown highlighted with walnut lines, multiplex stereo and tape deck inside, roll bar . . ." That is not so unusual as it might seem. Dick Steele, a Rambler dealer in the Valley, sold a man an Ambassador with reclining seats...
...Sanctions Committee is investigating allegations that a number of European, Asian and Latin American countries have continued to trade with Rhodesia. There is also widespread suspicion that some of the overpriced "Russian" chrome the U.S. is currently buying originates in Rhodesia. Still, as the harsh criticism of the U.S. in the Security Council indicated last week, those who break the rules of the game in a world where appearance often counts more than reality should not be surprised when the other players cry foul...