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...high shoulders, squat stance and a front grille that struts like a chrome peacock, Chrysler's new 300C draws its styling cues from the big American rumble seaters of the 1950s--and if you like that retro Big Daddy look, it doesn't disappoint. Powered by a V-8 Hemi, a revival of a classic Chrysler engine design, the car delivers 340 h.p. and 390 lb.-ft. of torque to the rear wheels, escalating the power wars for vehicles in its class. Considering its curb weight (4,018 lbs.), it handles with a surprisingly nimble feel and features classy touches...
...Sayles and John Waters, as well as a cute turn by the moms of Demme and David Byrne (who wrote and sings the opening song). These badges of hipness stick out like a designer label stitched on an old pair of jeans. The film causes no tremors, only a hemi-Demme-semiquav...
...coup d'etat with the threat of an external power." In the Reagan Administration's view, Grenada is a case in point: the U.S. may have intervened directly two weeks ago, but the Soviets and the Cubans have been engaging in indirect aggression in the Western Hemi sphere for years. Nor is the problem confined to superpowers. The Sandinista government of Nicaragua provides tactical aid and support for the Marxist-Leninist rebels of nearby El Salvador, and the U.S., of course, is backing anti-Sandinista rebels. (Last week the U.S. Senate approved $19 million in continuing covert...
...certainly the most important historical portrait in the Western Hemi sphere. Every schoolchild knows it. And, quite frankly, it doesn't matter whether it was literally painted by Gil bert Stuart himself...
...sign: DO NOT TOUCH THIS CAR UNLESS YOU ARE COMPLETELY NUDE!). Near by a crowd is gathering in front of the "Archie Bunker Hard Hat Hauler." The Hauler features a lunch-bucket gas tank, a chromed hard-hat roof, a forklift front bumper and a 500-h.p. Chrysler hemi-head engine with Triple GMC 671 blowers...