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...cars. And to do that it needs to win back America's trust. VWs late-'90s U.S. renaissance came after nearly two decades of slack sales that led it to consider pulling out of North America. What turbocharged sales was the New Beetle, launched in 1998; baby boomers with fond (if pot-hazed) memories of Microbuses and Beetles gravitated to the car, or at least to the dealership, where they saw Jettas and Passats that appealed to their more practical side. Teenage boys and young men turned the Golf gti into a hit on the "tuner" scene...
Kishlansky said that he has fond memories of attending Red Sox games with Gienapp, who taught the popular history class, History 1653, “Baseball and American Society, 1840-Present...
Hedges reunites his audience with April Burns (played with unassuming grace by Katie Holmes), who earned a shoplifting record in high school and was so curiously fond of fire that she once tried to trim her younger brother’s bangs with a lighter. Now 21-years-old and armed with the emotional support of her affectionate boyfriend Bobby (played by the ingratiating Derek Luke of Antwone Fisher fame), April less than eagerly embarks on a day of cooking and decoration to prepare her humble New York apartment for a Thanksgiving dinner with her estranged family. When April discovers...
Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people. Joel and Ethan Coen, having made a film whose title (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) was taken from a Preston Sturges movie, now launch a full, fond invasion of Sturges territory. In the tradition of The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story, this is a farce with chic repartee, devious twists and a cheerfully sardonic take on the human need for greed. Intolerable Cruelty sends moviegoers back to the '40s, when pretty people said witty things. It's the brothers' brightest, most accessible jape...
...writers demurred about whether Harvard students can expect the show to throw more nods in their direction, but Goffman hinted that viewers haven’t seen the last of Ryan Pierce. If Eli Attie’s fond memories are any indication of the writers’ fidelity to fair Harvard, it seems that the University will continue to play a role in “The West Wing...