Word: prix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series, which is designed to compete with Ford's cars for young families: the Taurus, best- selling midsize car in the U.S., and the Sable. The sporty GM-10s have debuted as two-door versions of the Olds Cutlass Supreme, Buick Regal and Pontiac Grand Prix; the four-door models are expected next fall. Already, one of them, the Chevrolet Lumina, is known inside GM as a "Taurus killer." But inasmuch as four-door cars make up 75% of U.S. auto sales, analysts wonder why GM first came out with two-door models, then allowed production of the larger versions...
...last week could well be named Fantasy Island. The new Hyatt Regency in Waikoloa on the main island of Hawaii offers luxury accommodations for $195 to $375 a night. For $325 extra, guests can train for a day under a professional driver, then suit up for a mock Grand Prix auto race along the coastline. Those who seek Hemingway-style adventures can hunt wild Russian boar and Longhorn bull on an island safari...
...winner of the Prix de Rome, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, and six honorary doctorate degrees...
...known is that Fragonard was born in Grasse, in Provence, in 1732. His father, a glovemaker, apparently moved the family in 1738 to Paris, where young Honore was apprenticed to two distinguished and influential artists, Chardin and Boucher. At the latter's suggestion, Fragonard applied for (and won) the Prix de Rome. He returned to Paris after his studies in Italy, was admitted to the Academy in 1765 -- membership entitled him to an apartment at the Louvre -- and became a commercial success...
...showed some flair with its popular Chevrolet Beretta and Corsica compacts introduced last year. Now the company is gambling $5 billion to gear up its new GM-10 cars for the more profitable midsize market. These front- wheel-drive coupe models of the Buick Regal, Pontiac Grand Prix and Oldsmobile Cutlass (a Chevrolet model is due next year) replace rear-wheel- drive versions. GM engineers have given each of the cars its own distinctive body lines...