Word: fender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being an idiot, and poses next to the car in a mock Elvis stance that's more embarrassing than funny. It's just a great song. The guy thinks he's the life of the party. In the open back seat of the limo is a shirt and flashy fender guitar. Never played. Never worn. They both belonged to Elvis...
...mention. His writing is clean, disinfected. Everybody says his prose shines; as usual, everybody is right. But it's the comfortable shine of a well-oiled set of carpenter's tools, fresh from a whetstone. No dancing hot shine of flame, nc shine of the evening ahead playing off fender chrome...
...unmailed bills, unopened letters, wadded-up Kleenex, a portable AM radio (antenna broken), a cardboard box full of old, yellowing T-shirts, and a paperback wedged in the crevice where windshield meets dashboard. Its title, Invade My Privacy, is fading fast in the sun. The auto's left rear fender sports an elaborate decal -- Blue Valentine -- the very same left rear fender emblazoned on the cover of Waits' thusly titled 1978 album. As Waits comments later, sitting in manager Herb Cohen's cloistered offices, "I couldn't afford a billboard, so I wrote...
...models as "the American way to beat the pump" will be Chairman Lee A. Iacocca. With a savvy and pound-on-the-fender style learned during 34 years in the auto business, he hopes to sell every one of the 600,000 K-cars that the company can produce this model year. So far, the public's response is good. Even before the cars have moved into dealer showrooms, Chrysler has sold 45,000 to fleet buyers like Xerox and AT&T and another 45,000 to dealers and individuals...
...idea like a dense fog; the technical term for the disease is anacoluthon, the sentence that careers around several corners and then lands in a ditch, its wheels spinning unintelligibly. Ike's press secretary, James Hagerty, used to edit the transcripts of his press conferences (body and fender work) before letting him be quoted directly...