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...have solved most of the diesel's problems of weight and sluggishness. VW's first diesel, sold in Europe in the Golf model, accelerates to 50 m.p.h. in 11.5 sec., v. 10.5 sec. for the comparable gasoline-powered version (which is known in the U.S. as the Rabbit), and has a top speed of 87 m.p.h. Price: $4,000. VW plans to bring out a diesel Rabbit in the U.S. in 1977, when gasoline doubtless will cost even more than it does...
...Rabbit Died...
Traveling along fraternity row...three frat men wrestling on a beer-soaked basement floor...a Harvard man discussing ICBMs and Mutually Assured Destruction with a Skidmore freshman...frat men playing ping-pong for beers while scores watched...three Harvard and two Smith students forced to sleep in a Volkswagen Rabbit...and of course an exuberant Harvard football manager waltzing through the streets of Hanover at 1 a.m. with a purloined...
...whole the novel seems diffused, in a way that earlier works, like Rabbit Redux, did not. In Redux, the complexity of the protagonist was enough to sustain the unity of a plot which occasionally rambled. Rabbit's speculations on love, sex, and politics were by themselves disjointed, but interesting nonetheless because he seemed someone worth knowing...
...virginity (I didn't clock it, but let's say 35 minutes into the film). Director Arthur Penn then gets down to the real business of the film, the mutilation of cattle thieves. (Blowing a man's kidneys out while he's having intercourse, flinging a steel rabbit trap through a man's eyeball--you know, "the breaks.") This grotesque circus of gore soon winds down into incoherency, and buffs who expected more from this line-up begin to realize the full meaning of "the breaks." Or, as Dr. Johnson might put it, "A humorous or ugly...