Word: splashiest
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Next month GM will roll out its basic lean cars for the 1980s. In the splashiest and costliest auto introduction in history, the company on April 19 will start selling its new compact X cars. Departing from the secrecy that surrounds most new models in Detroit, GM added to the hype by allowing plenty of tantalizing pre-introductory glimpses of these autos. Almost everything in them, from axles to windshields, has been redesigned to save weight and spare gas, and the company has poured $2.5 billion into the project so far. The stubby X car will replace four...
...part of the premiere puffery for The Ritz, the new movie based on Terrence McNally's Broadway comedy, which opened last week in New York. The film, set in a gay hotel-bathhouse, stars Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller and Rita Moreno, who created the party's splashiest scene when she hopped onto an island pedestal in the pool. "The photographers were just dying for me to fall in the water, but for that I get paid lots and lots of money," joked Moreno afterward. If she escaped a watery fate, Moreno was less lucky with some...
What was already one of the splashiest Palm Beach seasons in years suddenly got even splashier when Jacqueline and Aristotle Onassis steamed in from Haiti on their 325-ft. yacht Christina to visit Rose Kennedy. Hidden behind her usual oversize sunglasses, with a kerchief pulled low on her forehead, Jackie cut the press dead. Ari, tanned and shirtless, waved, smiled and carried on from the deck. Later Ari showed off his Greek dances at a party. Jackie said they were Greek by way of Argentina -Ari's home for a number of years. Ari was too busy dancing...