Word: mustangs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creeping fear and perhaps a few fretful, secretive exchanges before the news finally comes out. In the case of "Mary Smith,'' a 15-year-old freshman at Blair High School, and her 16-year-old boyfriend Heath Mayfield, a junior varsity running back with a spanking-new Ford Mustang, the pregnancy was well into the fifth month before they finally confirmed it with a home-test...
...brought into Blair for a court-sanctioned visit with her father. He pays $50 a month in child support, but the Smiths must use $40 of that to pay their share of the court-appointed supervisor's $10-an-hour fee. Heath says he has returned his new Mustang so he can afford the payments...
...After that start, the narration wafts aloft into further elegant absurdity, as follows: "Known throughout south Texas as the Great Western, she came walking up from the muddy Rio Grande holding a big snapping turtle by the tail. Matilda was almost as large as the skinny little Mexican mustang Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call were trying to saddle-break...
...plane. Lee did, but then turned around and bought Gulfstream. Don't get mad, get even. That's pure Lee.'' His best-selling autobiography opens with the 1978 scene of his being booted from his job at Ford, the company where he introduced the Mustang and rose swiftly to the top. His departure from Chrysler was more dignified, but not without its bumps. In 1992 the board, looking to forge a new image for the company, eased him out as chairman despite his lobbying to stay on a few more years. Returning to power at Chrysler would be sweet...
...most creative billionaire were forming their own company smote Hollywood with nuclear force. Spielberg will fold his unit, Amblin, into the new organization (though he may still direct outside projects). Katzenberg will run the studio; late last week the two men were tooling around Los Angeles in Katzenberg's Mustang, looking for a studio lot. And Geffen will make music make money...