Word: ferrari
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smell the Ferrari now," chants a fresh crop of instant multimillionaires...
...from a day trying to raise money, punch away at their calculators. Occasionally the coach passengers glimpse a bright future ahead. Well before Zitel, a small computer-memory company, went public last month, President Robert Welch was overheard confiding to a colleague on a flight, "I can smell the Ferrari...
Another disappointment is the movie debut of model/goddess Christie Brinkley as the temptress in the red Ferrari who leads Chase into all kinds of trouble. The Brinkley character--if you could call it that--is an obvious rip-off of the Suzanne Sommers' blonde in American Grafitti and has about as much personality as--well--a Sports Illustrated bathing suit spread. Brinkley--who is so sexy on paper--is embarrassing on celluloid, because, as simple as her part...
...that allow a privileged few tourists a chance to stay in stately homes with their titled occupants. For $90 a night, the venerable Lady Heald of Chilworth Manor, a converted 11th century monastery, will entertain and dine with a couple. Car buffs can arrange visits to the Mercedes, Lamborghini, Ferrari and BMW factories and the antique-car museums of Europe. The cost for that is about $2,900 for two weeks (airfare included), but the participant can save $4,000 by buying a Mercedes overseas and bringing it back to the U.S. The demand for deluxe travel is as lusty...
...like a highly tuned sports car, a Ferrari really." If the common allusions to machines bother Martina, she conceals hurt feelings well these days. Little seems to distress her, including a turmoil of counselors and coaches, who peck at computers as she plays, as though they were operating her by remote control. "The computer has done nothing for my tennis but wonders for my diet," she says happily. "I live not from one match to the next but from one meal to the next. I like to eat." Wimbledon champion and a size eight, she has "never felt so comfortable...