Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...venture will strengthen GM's position in the small-car field, where it has been glaringly weak. Although U.S. automakers have been trying since the late 1970s to assemble a model that can compete profitably with economy-size imports, they have been largely unsuccessful. The Japanese currently build small cars for an average of some $2,000 less than corresponding U.S. autos...
...celebrated in TV programs such as Dragnet and Adam 12, the Los Angeles police department has long been the very model of a modern constabulary: efficient, dedicated and incorruptible. But that image is being dealt a severe blow by allegations that from 1970 to 1981 the department ran a domestic spy operation, infiltrating more than 200 political, religious, labor and civic organizations and amassing information on thousands of Angelenos. Most of the snooping was illegal and politically motivated, charges the American Civil Liberties Union, whose suit on behalf of 131 victims is scheduled to go to trial next month. Says...
Hollywood, the shotgun marriage of art and industry, is never more schizophrenic than at Christmas. With its few "serious" movies (Yentl, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment), Tinseltown acts as pious as a tot on Santa's knee, straining to prove that it has been a model of decorum all year long, daring to ask for a big shiny Oscar. But with its "entertainment"pictures, Hollywood yearns to play Kriss Kringle, filling every Christmas stocking with a cheap thrill or a giddy giggle. So slapdash are these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with...
...bicycle rider, and he was black. The story is the stuff of juvenile fiction, but every word of it is true, and it is truly narrated in Bicycle Rider (Harper & Row; $9.95). Abetted by Ed Young's exuberant illustrations, Author Mary Scioscia raises Taylor from obscurity to role model. Her descriptions of turn-of-the-century black life in rural America never moralize; perhaps that, even more than the headlong pace, accounts for the most emotionally satisfying cyclist's story since Breaking Away unreeled...
DIED. Charlie Brown, 57, art instructor, longtime friend of Cartoonist Charles Schulz, and real-life model for the luckless, roundheaded hero of the Peanuts comic strip; of cancer; in Minneapolis...