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...innards were those of a utilitarian Ford Falcon, but its shell was sleek and jaunty enough to make it the only auto ever to win a design award from Tiffany & Co. Not even Lee lacocca, the Mustang's chief progenitor and now chairman of Chrysler Corp., expected it to be the most popular new car of the decade. The first weekend the Mustang went on sale, 4 million people visited Ford showrooms. Over the next two years, the company built 1.28 million Mustangs. Young people snapped them up because they looked racy, yet cost as little...
...ways, a defense of snobbery. Without carrying Brechtian placards, the play says in a variety of ways: "Marry your own kind," "Wealth sanctifies," "Avoid lesser breeds (like maids and intrusive upstart journalists) who violate the elitist code of being 'yare.' " That is the saline substance beneath the sleek surface of The Philadelphia Story, and it is only fitfully evident in this production...
...both explicit and hard-hitting. "Scream Like a Baby" is an account of a government crackdown on undesirables told with emotion and immediacy. "They came down hard on the faggots/They came down hard on the street," Bowie sings, giving specifics in place of his usual vague insinuations. Set to sleek rock backing, it's the album's outstanding tune...
...bulls that storm through the walls of bars to prove their machismo. The theme of the new Mercury campaign is the automaker's battle with foreign competition. In each commercial, the lynx, lured by an unseen pan of beefsteak, leaps atop a huge globe and symbolizes a sleek survivor that will conquer the world. Says Manny Perez, who produced the commercials: "The animal pushes the right emotional buttons in the viewers' minds...
...round and too much ketchup. But class will tell, and Curtis has worked with the men at the head of the scare-picture class: John Carpenter, who directed her in both Halloween and The Fog, and Cinematographer John Alcott, who makes this toy locomotive of a film look as sleek and eerie as the ghost of the Twentieth Century Limited. Curtis brings her own class to the genre, though one wonders where her career will lead her next. Into an ominous shower stall? Like mother, like daughter, bless...