Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sportier Company. "Volkswagen can afford to offer several lines," says Kurt Lotz, the elegant and imposing VW chairman. The line-up now stretches from sub-beetles to Mercedes-sized sedans. Auto Union's new Audi 100, an 80-h.p. model that sells for $2,223, has surprised Wolfsburg executives by competing strongly with the 411, VW's stolid, 68-h.p. entry in the medium-priced market. The basic beetle, which still accounts for nearly two of every three VW sales, is about to get some sportier company. In February, VW entered a joint development venture with Porsche; soon...
...spectrum; following gall bladder surgery; in Manhattan. While teaching political science at New York's Hunter College in the 1920s and '30s, she was one of Communism's most strident U.S. voices. In 1949, she fell afoul of the party for departing from the Moscow line, and thereupon turned 180°. She was a frequent and damaging informer during the McCarthy Senate hearings, eventually grew so conservative that last year she ran (and lost) for U.S. Congressman from New York on the Conservative ticket. She lost by a wide margin...
What saves Malamud is his own presence. Every line he writes is stamped with the intensity of personal concern. It is as if all his characters and all that happens to them are projections of an interior morality play, more interesting, possibly, than what gets staged. This funny, racking battle between unseen angels and demons is what makes Malamud vibrate so faithfully to both the hope and the despair...
...prize people. I think twice when one character asks hi sister, "Why did you let him touch you?" and she replies, "Why do people go to museums? Women don't make decisions like that." In my limited experience, it is precisely such decisions that women do make, but the line sticks even if it doesn't wash. And a line like "I wish to hell you wouldn't let everyone take advantage of you; what fun is it for me then?"--a line like that does both...
Penn has made no line-up changes in the past week, and the same boat that trounced Harvard in Philadelphia will face the Crimson at the Sprints...