Word: jaguars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawn's first dandelions, the very embodiment of compulsive suburban man. He has a full shock of sandy gray hair, bushy eyebrows of a color that somebody with a window dresser's vocabulary once described as "ginger," and a face easefully lined, like the leather seats of an old Jaguar. Friends say that women tremble in his presence. E.P. Dutton Editor Tom Congdon describes an incident that occurred once when he was walking with Baker on Nantucket: a stunningly beautiful young woman on a bicycle asked for directions. "Russ ambled over to her and started to tell...
...Jaguar. At Harvard-Epworth, Sunday...
...both the baseball and football teams and a Golden Gloves boxer while attending San Francisco's Woodrow Wilson High School. Son of a San Francisco fireman, he served in Viet Nam, then worked 3½ years as a policeman. He somehow managed to buy first an $8,000 Jaguar, then a $15,000 Porsche, before taking a leave of absence to hitchhike through the U.S. After joining the fire department in 1973, he was cited for heroism for rescuing a mother and her child from the 17th floor of a burning building. He was to have received the medal...
...station attendant looked at us sort of funny when we drove up in the Jaguar Namo had hot-wired, and his eyebrows almost disappeared over the top of his forehead when Namo asked where in New England we were. I think the attendant must have tipped someone off about the car, because once we were on the highway we started passing state police cars cruising at high speed with their lights on and their sirens wailing and the officers inside gesticulating madly at us. Madly? Did I say madly? It's relative...
Long after you have forgotten the skinny little kid living macho fantasies in the cockpit of the MG Midget or the paunchy men pretending they are seriously considering the Jaguar, and long after all the slimy automotive marketing hype has slipped from your mind, one sad image from the auto show stays with...