Word: impala
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...ride from the airport to downtown Managua calls to mind those almost forgotten revolutions in Africa, from Angola through Zaire, where the rhetoric has marched quickly away from reality. An aging Chevrolet Impala with a cracked windshield and an oil light that glows menacingly in the dark rattles down a potholed road. Bouncing headlights pick out clumps of stoic people waiting for buses that arrive infrequently and full. The bus fleet, local wisdom has it, has almost been run off the road because its mechanics are employed fixing the army's Soviet T-54 tanks. Many people resort to walking...
...animals stand motionless in gold-white grasses -- zebras and impala, Thomson's gazelles and Cape buffalo and hartebeests and waterbuck and giraffes, and wildebeests by the thousands, all fixed in art naif, in a smiting equatorial light. They stand in the shadowless clarity of creation...
...kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal roof of another '63 Chevrolet; The Bicentennial Welfare Cadillac by James Roche, decked out with mirrors and flags; and Ghetto Blaster by Scott Prescott, an Impala converted into a menacing gray tank. French Sculptor Arman has a towering indictment: his Long Term Parking piles 60 cars on top of one another and embeds them in concrete (MOCA shows a model...
...people on a crowded sidewalk in Pretoria, a dozen South African jet fighters were skimming low over Maputo, capital of neighboring Mozambique. After loosing a barrage of rocket, cannon and machine-gun fire at private residences and a jam factory in a suburb of the port city, the Impala fighters peeled off westward and headed home...
...buyers already are showing the influence of cheaper oil. Sales of Chevrolet's full-size Caprice and Impala models rose 12.6% during the first quarter, for ex ample, while its subcompact Chevette showed a 40.2% drop. Ford sold 25.3% more of its big Crown Victorias, and 9.8% fewer of its little Escorts. Ford is extending the life of its Victoria and Grand Marquis models, which were to have been phased out this year, and Chrysler is keeping its big New Yorker and producing large cars 16% faster than it did four months ago. Chairman Lee Iacocca, however, wants...