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...Governor's mansion that was started by his predecessor. Instead, he lives in a modest Sacramento apartment and pays the $250-a-month rent out of his own pocket. Gifts are invariably returned to the sender: a gold pass to Disneyland, a copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Latin. Brown even rejected a volume commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Los Angeles Music Center, a gift from Buff Chandler, matriarch of the politically powerful family that publishes the Los Angeles Times. With that, his father, former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, complained, "Jerry goes...
...Russell's Tommy is the ultimate trip, the ultimate TV show. Its central metaphor is a deaf, dumb and blind person playing pinball--total sensory overload. Add some drugs (the audience), loud music in five-track Quintaphonic sound, and a camera that socks back and forth like an All rabbit punch, and you have an experiences so full that it cancels itself out. You buck and heave uncontrollably for two hours and waddle out of the theater, hoping that you'll smash the car into a wall on the way home or something because maybe that...
Inflation has raised the prices of most American cars above those of competing foreign models, and no U.S. automaker can match the gas-mileage claims of some of the imports: 38 m.p.g. for the Volkswagen Rabbit, 39 m.p.g. for the Japanese Honda Civic. Those cars are in the forefront of the import surge, along with Fiat, Datsun, Toyota and British Leyland's Marina. Says Honda's U.S. sales manager, Cliff Schmillen: "There seems to have been a change in people's thinking. It has sunk in that energy shortages and high gasoline prices will be with them...
...Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association said: "In America, which is in a truly deep recession, one question is how will we be able to continue to support the principle of free trade?" Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers, is trying to document a suspicion that the Rabbit, at a U.S. sticker price of $2,999, is being sold below cost, which would be grounds for a "dumping" complaint to the Treasury Depart ment. Robert Link, a Datsun executive, says nervously that "we don't really want to sell less, but we sure wish Detroit would sell more," thus...
...ropes, guarding his face and upper body from Wepner's pummeling and waiting for his opponent to wear down. Unable to penetrate Ali's defense, Wepner began to pound him on the back of the head; when Referee Tony Perez failed to stop Wepner, Ali returned the rabbit punches. In Round 7, Ali stung Wepner, opening a cut over his left eye that Wepner's handlers struggled to close by smearing it with a special salve...