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...large that they must rent out the family estate, Kellynch Hall. Anne's vain father, Sir Walter Elliot (Corin Redgrave), and her malicious older sister, Elizabeth (Phoebe Nicholls), protest in horror, showing immediately that they lack that prime Austenian virtue, good sense. Only Anne and Lady Russell (Susan Fleetwood), who in the film seems something of an aging bohemian, make the necessary case for relocating to the resort town of Bath, where, as Sir Walter's lawyer tells him, "It is possible to be important at less expense...
General Motors Corp. today said that it would stop building the last of the "boats" that first made Detroit famous. By year's end, the world's biggest car company will discontinue its once-beloved, rear-wheel drive behemoths (the Buick Roadmaster, Cadillac Fleetwood, Chevrolet Caprice and Impala). GM's Arlington, Tx., assembly plant, which makes the big cars, will switch gears and start churning out popular full-size pickup trucks instead...
What's really needed is a revamped publicity campaign, something that says Radcliffe is a part of history, kind of like Fleetwood Mac, Yoko Ono, hoop skirts and the My Lai Massacre. Radcliffe also might huddle with Elvis's people, perhaps if you killed the school, more people would think it's alive...
...true that in the 1970s there were two very important unisex bands: Fleetwood Mac and the Partridge Family. But those were about the only coed bands around; now they are common. Even the house band on Late Show with David Letterman has added a female guitarist. The foundation of the recent trend was laid in the late '70s and early '80s by such rock heroines as Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous...
...radio. I needed my Peter Gabriel, my Pearl Jam, my R.E.M.! Flipping aimlessly through station after station, from WBUR's BBC coverage to Kiss 108's irritating dance mixes, I eventually found what I was looking for--on WBOS, the station that the Unofficial Guide characterizes as "Fleetwood Mac and the Doobies...