Word: electras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luxury cars, including Cadillacs, Lincolns and Chrysler New Yorkers, are selling briskly. And now that gasoline prices have leveled off, at least temporarily, some full-size models, among them the $6,500 Buick Electra, are regaining favor with family buyers. But the big winners so far are the fancier compacts and small, sporty cars that promise buyers both economy and plenty of options and pizazz...
American Context. One of the first to detect the trend to conservatism was James William Guercio, 29, a former Mothers of Invention guitarist turned millionaire moviemaker (Electra Glide in Blue). He manages Chicago and occasionally sits in on bass with the Beach Boys. Guercio brought the groups together. Garbed in a baggy football jersey bearing his last name and the numeral 1 and sitting in the living room of his $30,000 mobile home, Guercio tries to explain it all: "The American experience is found in Southern California and the streets of Chicago. These bands sing about youth, love...
...Michigan, he landed a job with Lockheed in the Depression year of 1933, largely on the basis of an impressive wind-tunnel analysis he had made of a model of a forthcoming Lockheed plane; the young graduate recommended a twin tail for the new all-metal, twin-engine Electra, Lockheed's first successful passenger plane (Neville Chamberlain used it to fly home from Munich). Reason: a single rudder offered inadequate control if an engine conked...
...says. "What was missing is what American actors are known for: interior work, subtext work." But with the advent of Director Mel Shapiro, Moriarty found a mentor whose approach to acting meshed with his own, and he soon was playing increasingly important roles in everything from Mourning Becomes Electra to Merton of the Movies...
...driving?perhaps even a large sedan for limited use. Some families may own a small car and rent a large one whenever they have to travel somewhere together. Joseph M. Pepek, a dentist in Westfield, Mass., may represent the two-car future: last month he traded his big Buick Electra Limited for a smaller Buick Century and a tiny Japanese-made Subaru. "I use the Subaru to go to work," he says, "and the Buick for going to church or stepping out on Saturday night?you know, ceremonial occasions...