Word: elan
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...Ford, lacocca dazzled buyers with the elan of a three-card monte dealer by spinning off the Mustang and Continental Mark series from existing chassis combinations. Now he is trying to do the same thing with virtually an entire line of cars. The $5,900 Dodge and Plymouth 1981-model K-cars begat the $8,100 1982 Chrysler LeBaron and Dodge 400, the $12,300 Chrysler LeBaron convertible (see box) and the 1983 Chrysler E Class and Dodge 600, which sell for $9,000 to $12,000. By stretching the K-car, he produced the luxury Chrysler New Yorker...
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Elkin is America's master literary pitchman. No fiction writer sells ideas and myths with more elan and imagination. His fantasies about popular culture and allegorical burlesques have been set in places as disparate as a department-store basement (A Bad Man), an all-night radio station (The Dick Gibson Show) and heaven and hell (The Living...
...injury at 34, almost twice the age of some of his male colleagues, Mikhail Baryshnikov seemed destined for full-time duty as artistic director of the American Ballet Theater. But last week at the 19th century Teatro Nuovo at Spoleto, Italy, "Misha" returned to his airborne artistry, performing with elan in Other Dances, a new work by Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63. As for speculation that his turn as a dancer is almost over, "That 'almost' can mean a lot of things," says Baryshnikov. "Meanwhile, I go on dancing...
...Third World upstarts had merely gone on the offensive. Incredibly, the Algerians-colossal early-line long shots at 2,000 to 1-attacked ferociously. Forward Rabah Madjer scored, and an awakened German team retaliated with a goal by the superstar Rummenigge. But half a minute later, moving with an elan rarely seen in the tentative opening round, Lakhdar Belloumi fired from close range and hit. Said the dejected German goalie, Harald Schumacher: "I'll have a face operation so nobody will recognize me when I go home." If there was no joy in Munich, Algerians danced in the streets...