Word: gales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...headlamp. A fender. A door window. A trunk. And wheels. Sometimes a teardrop, a spacecraft. Cars. Even hiding out behind the back desk of the third row wasn't enough to keep the Flint, Michigan, fourth-grader out of trouble, until an art teacher stopped by and became Tom Gale's first serious customer...
...Gale grew up in an era when the postwar group of industrial designers -- men like GM's legendary Harley Earl, whose decree of "longer, lower, wider" became the maxim of the industry -- were captivating auto shows with cowls, tail fins and futuristic shapes that turned boxes on wheels into high-flying fashions of steel and chrome. But then Gale labored for almost 25 years in a company that was known mainly for a single product, the dull and dowdy economy K-cars. Although Chrysler's minivan, introduced in the mid-1980s, was a godsend to Little League teams...
...Gale was one of the first talents to be liberated by Chrysler's industrial revolution and the creation of independent platform teams. When he drew the assignment to create a new midsize car, he and chief engineer Francois Castaing physically began tearing down and breaking apart clay models, pulling out the wheels until they stood at the edge of the metal, stretching them to the very extremes front and back, pushing the windshield over the hood until it began to look like the front of a locomotive. The changes opened up the height, width and interior space in ways that...
...Gordon would kick the ball from the center of the field. He wouldn't have to worry about the left or right hash marks. On a good day, with gale force winds at my back, I could hit this one, so a division one kicker should be able to make...
...Genghis Khan with a telephone!" What the author of War and Peace had in mind, of course, was the device's military potential. But Genghis Khan as symbol stands for something much larger in the Russian psyche: a force of upheaval that can intrude as suddenly as an arctic gale or a Mongol horde. In the convulsions that wracked Moscow last week, as in the ambush that slaughtered American soldiers in distant Somalia, chaos demonstrated once more that it has long since mastered the long-distance message. Genghis Khan today not only has telephones and satellite-TV links, but uses...