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...only wonder why he decided to donate his lucrative earnings from the popular daytime game show to Harvard University, of all places. He could have spent his money on one of the Showcase Showdown dream vacations to Guadalajara (brand new jeep included) or poured his money into a golf course so he could practice his "Hole in One" putts. He could have polished his "Plinko" pucks until they shined...
...SIGNS WERE THERE TO BE READ, even if at first they didn't make a lot of what is usually thought of as sense. There was, yeah, that white Bronco in Brentwood. And the black Jeep that Tim Robbins, consummate Hollywood dealmaking lizard, drove in The Player. And Arnold's Hummer. Not a normal car among them...
...years ago of the tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf or Ford Escort said nothing whatsoever. Did we need talking cars? Apparently: a Jeep with a mountain bike or kayak rack bolted to the roof said, "I'm doing the Ironman next month." You have to drive something, and if your $299-a-month lease can get you a Ford Explorer and a largely painless reputation for living on the edge...
...Bronx building superintendent Robert DeJesus of his snowblower. But other city dwellers deferred elaborately to one another on narrow-shoveled walks. In Washington, Abby Stone and her two daughters made sandwiches all Monday morning and spent the afternoon delivering food and blankets to the homeless in their emerald-green Jeep Grand Cherokee...
...sharp as needles--hang from the eaves: wild ice stalactites, dragon's teeth. I peer through them to see the world transformed to abstract whiteout. Little dervish snow tornadoes twirl across the blank. The car is out there somewhere, represented by a subtle bump in the snowfield. The old Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that now lies, neck broken, upon the roadside snowbank, soon to vanish under...