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...hearts go out to these people because they suffer on our behalf. Most of us merely dream nonsense, but the rich have to live it; and while we rarely endure the consequences of our fantasies, they do so relentlessly. Allan Carr, the co-producer of Grease, reflecting on his Malibu dream house and his Beverly Hills mansion with its cop per-walled disco chamber, exulted, "This is my fantasy . . . I'm dreaming all this." Then he added that he would kill anyone who awakened him. Who would think of doing that? Thanks to the Allan Carrs, all our harebrained...
...will be familiar with the firepower available to the "opposition." Most slugs easily penetrate the side of the car. Then four of the class put on crash helmets and seat belts for an initiation run around the track in one of Scott's four new, high-performance Chevrolet Malibu police cars...
...Especially the macho types. It's a heavy landing for them to find out they really can't drive and are nowhere near the limits of the car." For reassurance, the student looks at the special brake pedal installed on the passenger side of Scott's Malibu for the instructor to use if a student panics and freezes...
Ramming is almost the last alternative to consider. In an ambush the two basic maneuvers are the bootleg and J turns, which students practice for hours. The worst thing is to do nothing. During "confrontation and chase," a sort of midterm exam on wheels, each student jockeys one Malibu around the track, trying to anticipate, and avoid, ambushes by "terrorist" instructors in three other cars...
...stamina to write essays" advised E.B. White. Didion's collected pieces in The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem frankly do not purport to be objective social history, and we would be missing the point to regard them as such. Rather, we read these meditations upon Bogota and Malibu, John Wayne and Charles Manson to learn how an acutely sensitive and articulate individual managed to harrow the age. Subjectivity is the point in full...