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Marxist sociologists suggest that we see ourselves in the cars we choose. Young, assertive, loud, one is a Triumph or a Porsche. As we become more burdened, we evolve into Ford station wagons. Last seen of all that ends this strange eventful history, a man becomes a settled sedan: perhaps a Seville. Perhaps a used 1967 Chevy...
...observers and reporters, three white pine coffins were delivered to U.S. officials, who identified the bodies, resealed the coffins and carried them to the military demarcation line, where U.S. troops draped the American flag over each and bore it away. While the receipts were being signed, a Russian-made sedan drew up and Schwanke, looking pale and worn but otherwise in good shape, stepped out. Later the official North Korean news agency, monitored in Tokyo, said Schwanke had made a public apology at the city of Kae-song, five miles north of Panmunjom, shortly before his release...
...film industry, is widely-known for his existentialist treatment of his subjects, and Aguirre is no different. Herzog's view of the Spaniards' abuse of the Indians they found in Latin America is offered through juxtaposition of images--four chained Indians struggle under the burden of a gaily-decorated sedan chair while its occupant looks on impassively; the monk impassively kills two Indians who fail to understand his efforts to proseletize. But the filmmaker's views are rarely more articulated than this, as if he accepts the conquistadors' brutality because that is the way it was. A great deal...
Even when he is in mufti, his erect military bearing is obvious. And as Admiral Stansfield Turner passes military men in the CIA's spacious corridors, they often salute automatically. When he descends from his seventh-floor office in a private, key-operated elevator and steps into his sedan, the chauffeur calls him "Admiral" rather than "Director." Turner likes it that way. After 34 years in the Navy, he is all salt...
...Richard Cain, an ex-cop who served as a top aide to Giancana. The latest to die was top Triggerman Charles (Chuck) Nicoletti, 62, an Accardo protégé. He caught three .38-cal. slugs in the head on March 29 while sitting in his blue Oldsmobile sedan outside the Golden Horns Restaurant in suburban Northlake. For good measure, the assassins fire-bombed...