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...Chrysler's Prowler, the only American entry in the class--a convertible designed to hot-wire the Plymouth brand's low-watt image. Tom Gale, the Chrysler design chief who oversaw the $35,000 two-seater, says with a smile, "I remember when I was a kid thinking that convertibles were faster than other cars...
Nathans said that when the decision was made, weather forecasts for many of the sites where FOP trips were to take place called for gale-force winds and torrential rain...
Right about now, KELSEY GRAMMER may be regretting he ever wrote his autobiography, So Far. In it the Frasier star says he'll one day marry Tammi Baliszewski, "the gentle breeze in which I flourish today." Unfortunately, the wedding's off, and the gentle breeze is writing her own gale-force tell-all. Grammer also claims that Cerlette Lamme, whom he gallantly calls "not the neediest woman I've ever been with but needy enough," got high and lost his dog, Goose. Lamme is suing for libel and invasion of privacy. Not one to dwell on past errors, Grammer spent...
...village of Cullercoats on the coast, near Newcastle. He painted the fisherfolk: the men, massive in their rain-slicked oilskins, and the women mending nets and waiting on shore. The distended shapes of windblown clothes give these already robust female figures a sculptural air: you feel the gale blowing their aprons into spinnakers. Homer had to have been looking at the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum, with their fluent drapery rippling across limbs and torso. Sometimes these shawled women, silhouetted against the scudding gray, have the presence of Greek mourners. At Cullercoats he found a basic image...
...gnawed granite ledges became the emblematic landscape of his finest work. No artist since Turner had painted the sea with such lyric concentration, from the beaming blue transparency of the Caribbean, captured in masterly watercolors, to the sullen beat and topple of gray combers driven by an Atlantic gale on the Maine rocks. Cannon Rock, 1895, with its high horizon line and broad V of incoming waves framed by dark rocks, exactly captures the sensation of standing on an exposed promontory with the sea coming straight at you, like a wall...