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After speaking about his influences, Fuentes read a passage from his most recent book, The Years with Laura Diaz, which describes Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Laura Diaz's trip to Detroit where Rivera was painting the Ford automobile mural...
...just as the details become interesting, especially leading up to the infamous trip to Ford Theater, Donald loses us. He gets caught up attempting to disprove that Lincoln was interested in all things psychic and ghost-related, as is so often rumored. Donald could have a great closing, yet instead, he sounds like he's trying to refute an argument some critic made about his last Lincoln book...
...states and the Vice President takes the blue states." Hell yeah! Give the fascist Idaho and Utah. But what happens to Florida, you ask? Sell it to Cuba for a nice pack of cigars!...Lara Flynn Boyle had flings with Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, and Harrison Ford back to back. Can we say Father Fetish?...Britney Spears got her nipples pierced. Sigh. So predictable....As soon as I get my job, I'm going to chop my hair off and go platinum both in rebellion against corporate culture and in celebration of blonde nymphets. I don't think La Flamme...
...made of Jernigan's performance, I think of William Carlos Williams' line, and it occurs to me that in this quixotic adventure, I'm following those same currents of refined obsession, trying to claim a small, evanescent patch of the American fantasy. The maverick creative spirit that animated Henry Ford and Les Paul and Elvis is fully manifest in this impossible instrument, which is as crazy and American as it gets...
Even as Chrysler hurries to increase supply, another entry in the nostalgia sweepstakes is on the way. Next summer an incarnation of the classic 1955 Ford Thunderbird will appear. The Thunderbird (so named by a young Ford stylist who was rewarded with a $95 bonus and a pair of trousers from Saks Fifth Avenue) started out as a snazzy two-seater weighing 3,000 lbs. and costing $2,695. It eventually evolved into a giant sedan weighing more than 5,000 lbs. that was finally discontinued in 1997. The new model, slimmed down to roadster size and fitted with familiar...