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Nearly 80 years ago, around the time a Kansas-born carmaker was putting his name on the newest, tallest, shiniest building in the world, a young auto mechanic named Morris Weinberg opened a repair shop on busy Brooklyn Avenue in Kansas City, Mo. As he modestly prospered, fixing and selling used cars, Weinberg dreamed that his son would enter the auto business. Not used cars, though - new cars. Sleek and powerful cars, like the ones built by Walter Chrysler's company. And that's how Steve Weinberg, with his father's savings to stake him, came to open a Dodge...
...Force has always been the shiniest, most hardware-centric of the nation's military services. Whether it's the brooding bat-like B-2 bomber, the razor-sharp F-22 fighter, or the constellation of satellites that transmits everything from war plans to the GPS signal telling you where you are, the flyboys spare almost no expense in outfitting themselves with the state-of-the-art armament. This year, the Air Force is spending close to $65 billion - more than either the Army or Navy - developing new weapons. So at a time when politicians never tire of declaring their unbridled...
Taking home a gold medal, the second novice eight finished with fireworks. Finishing four seconds ahead of Navy, the boat which has been forced to row most of the season as a four brought home the shiniest medal...
...Danes’ character bothered with him at all—surely the money couldn’t be good enough to make up for the tedium? Admittedly, her other option is Jason Schwartzman, in the role of Jeremy. Armed with a wardrobe of stained clothing and the shiniest bob to grace screens since the late ’20s, Jeremy is the prototypical Slacker—Doritos and all. He’s got some funny lines and introduces the novel idea of using a sandwich bag in lieu of a condom, but for the most part, you just...
...opportunity for black actresses. Ironically, this equity that would have been easier to achieve in Hollywood's so-called Golden (read: Caucasian) Age, when actresses were not merely ornaments to stud stars, and women's roles were not appendages in macho movies. Then, the dream factory custom-made its shiniest vehicles to suit the likes of Garbo, Stanwyck, Crawford, Lombard, Monroe, Shirley Temple and two ladies named Hepburn - but not anyone of color, no matter how talented or glamorous she might be. That was the way things were. Hollywood relegated blacks, actors and actresses, to the corner of the frame...