Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a month, America's Ford and Italy's Fiat had waged a fervent campaign for the hand of Alfa Romeo, the prestigious but financially troubled maker of sleek sports cars. Last week the local swain won. I.R.I., the Italian state conglomerate that owns Milan-based Alfa, announced acceptance of Fiat's $5 billion offer for 100% ownership. Also-ran Ford's bid was never made public, but it was believed to include an initial $100 million for a 20% chunk of Alfa plus promises of a hefty $2 billion additional investment in the company...
...French have long put the ooh in la la, and the watchwords of recent years in France have been "slim" and "sleek." Now a newcomer named Beatrice Dalle is bursting the seams of Paris and bringing some heft back to pulchritude. Two years ago, the unknown 19-year-old bohemian was walking down a Paris street when a photographer asked to take her picture. She agreed and -- voila! -- Dalle soon appeared on her first magazine cover, followed last summer by an Elle magazine story using her face and cleavage to herald the return of the well-rounded figure. Her acting...
...decades, in need of an adequate and permanent home in which to display the increasing number of diverse, sophisticated and sometimes monumental creations of the country's craftsmen and -women. This week the roving comes to an end when the museum, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, opens its sleek and spacious new quarters across the street from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City...
...Huddleston defeat taught campaign consultants another lesson as well. "An attack unanswered," says Squier, "is an attack agreed to." In other words, you had better fight back. In Louisiana's Senate race, Republican Henson Moore's ad campaign uses a sleek series of voter-in-the-street encounters to ask the significance of the number 1,083. After a series of wild guesses -- a new tax form? the year the Normans conquered England? -- a narrator supplies the answer: the number of floor votes Democratic Candidate John Breaux has missed in 14 years in the House of Representatives...
...sleek convertible that General Motors is formally unveiling in Detroit this week looks a bit out of place wearing the ornate Cadillac nameplate. The car has no fins, no bulk, virtually no chrome, not even a backseat. In fact, the new Allante (price: about $50,000) looks more like a sports car than the kind of Cadillac young, wealthy car buyers can remember their grandparents driving. But that is precisely what its creators at GM had hoped. Determined to shed the stodgy image that has caused the company to lose so many upscale U.S. buyers to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar...