Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total $472,720 award money. Only then did McLaren have 34 of his victorious Mark 6A racers reproduced and sold to competitors-including Dan Gurney, who has quite a reputation as a car builder himself. With that, McLaren set out to build a 1968 model that would show its tail pipes to the 1967s...
Sheer Will Power. Top Manhattan Model Peggy Moffitt first flew at the age of seven, and used to commute to California by plane; now she travels only by train. Why the changeover? "Nothing dramatic," she says, "I just got married, and that made me feel mortal." Most groundlings trace the beginning of their phobia to an especially hairy flight. Jackie Gleason swore off flying in the 1940s when the plane on which he was a California-to-New York passenger lost two engines and landed in a Midwest wheatfield. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante also dates his dislike of flying...
Over-Refined. This satire of contrasting intellectual and ethnic types is a model (if not a parody) of what is often described as New Yorker fiction: the nostalgic revelation of an overrefined sensibility that emerges preferably in an unusual setting. More important, Mosby is a cameo that illustrates the dangers of the reductive, aggressively critical intellect...
Eisenstadt is a political opportunist of the rankest sort. A "progressive" opponent of Mrs. Hicks when liberalism was popular, Eisenstadt now comes down hard for law and order, opposes community participation within Boston's Model City area, opposes the volunteer deputy program, and upbraids Mayor White for not calling in the National Guard to quell the disturbances at Boston English School last month...
Naturally, Marya Mannes, thinly disguised as a bright, sixtyish, musically inclined writer named Kate, winds up like that, in her family's year-round beach house. Along with her is an aging cross section of the New York cultural scene: a ham-fisted objective painter and his ex-model wife, a famous composer of Broadway show tunes, a celebrated ex-Viennese conductor...