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...extend their winning streak. Ford's conservatively restyled Taurus has come up a winner in the high-volume midsize-sedan market and is steadily gaining on Honda's Accord as the nation's best-selling car. Chrysler has nothing but new products to come, including its own line of sleek midsize LH sedans to be introduced this fall...
...length a car trip is measured by the number of songs that pass on the radio. His role model is Mr. Frank E. Miller of the Bechtol Corporation, an Iacocca prototype who has published an autobiography. Tyler's sources of pride include his Comfortmobile(a black Nissan) and his sleek, high-tech bedroom, which he dubs the Modernarium...
...earth, good-humored-then Stephanie exemplifies the eighties. A "French babe" whom Tyler describes as "a rich girl from a mighty bourgeois family," Stephanie is self-centered, spoiled and materialistic. She cares more about her final destination that about the road she takes to get there. She is sleek, mean and untouchable. Like the Shiny decadence of the recent past, she is astoundingly appealing...
When the trustees decided a decade ago that they could not manage without considerable additional space, they turned to Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel, architects whose work (sleek, handsome, rather restrained) is not exactly Wrightian. On the 35-ft. sliver of land behind Wright's museum, Gwathmey Siegel would build the Guggenheim an addition. Ever since, the firm has been accused by a slightly hysterical mandarin consensus of desecrating the Guggenheim, of wanting to make a toothpick from a piece of the True Cross; the first design, a huge tower that brazenly cantilevered a pale green box out over Wright...
Tower (95 Mt. Auburn) and HMV (in Brattle Square) are predictably huge, sleek and impersonal. Each offers a gargantuan selection of rock, classical, jazz and international music at decent prices, with popular albums regularly priced...