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...late 1980s, but Volkswagenwerk of Wolfsburg, West Germany, is quickly pulling ahead. Having largely phased out its venerable Beetle profile of the 1950s and 1960s for the engineering improvements and angular lines of the bestselling Rabbit in the 1970s, the company is now at work on the aerodynamically sleek silhouette of a new subcompact four-seater design that looks more like a Gucci slipper than...
...sequences, while Art Babbitt concentrated on large, slow, furry creatures like Goofy and the Big Bad Wolf. Grim Natwick, who created Betty Boop for another studio, was the early specialist in femininity. Eric Larson's skill with cute round little animals contrasted nicely with John Lounsbery's sleek menace-Cruella in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Alex Alligator in Fantasia. That film, of course, was the great test of the studio's range and included such marvelous, unprecedented imagery as Wolfgang Reitherman's massed battling dinosaurs and the dark demonism of Vladimir Tytla's work...
...their four portfolios. By far the most important belonged to Charles Fiterman, 47, the party's second-in-command. Named Transportation Minister, he also became a Minister of State, one of the five highest ranking Cabinet officers. Other new ministers arrived at the Elysée in sleek, gray, chauffeur-driven Citroëns, but Fiterman rolled up behind the wheel of his own tiny brown Renault-with a team of TV reporters huddled in back. Interviewed after his appointment, Fiterman bristled at suggestions that Communist ministers would give state secrets to the Soviets. Said he: "Nobody...
...other Bond movies, it helps to think of them not as, say, different vintages of a fine Bordeaux but as successive models off the Pontiac assembly line. In one vehicle there may be an annoying ping in the engine of narrative; in another the dialogue may be as sleek as Genuine Corinthian Leather. But all meet the same standards of speed, styling and emotion control. If there is no Rolls-Royce in the Bond series, there is also no Pinto...
Elegance is inflationary. Whether or not taxpayers are actually picking up the bills (they are certainly not paying for Nancy's hairdresser or the President's first-class country-squire tweeds), the style bespeaks to some a sleek and impenetrable callousness...