Word: springsteen
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...automobile by itself. We made the cars; the mythology of open-road optimism was an after-market accessory. It was the work of advertising agencies in New York that rhymed U.S.A. with Chevrolet; Californians like the Beach Boys and George Lucas, who made American Graffiti; New Jerseyans like Bruce Springsteen, who sang about pink Cadillacs, Chevrolet Deluxes and suicide machines sprung from cages out on Highway...
...culture tends to be more wistful. After the Motown era, which more or less coincided with the end of Detroit's glory days as a city and an industry, you have to look hard to find songs by Michigan musicians about driving. Instead, Bob Seger--Michigan's Springsteen, who gave Chevrolet its "Like a Rock" slogan--reminisced about the backseat of his '60 Chevy in "Night Moves" and sang "Makin' Thunderbirds" about workers building Ford muscle cars in 1955: "They were long and low and sleek and fast/ They were classic in a word...
...like Halloween every weekend! The themes give you a reason to play dress-up like when you were little, giving you an excuse for a shopping trip to the Garment District. Plus, they play all of your favorite songs. If you don’t like Bruce Springsteen, you’re un-American. And best of all, you get to watch freshmen awkwardly grope each other, unsure of the proper etiquette for grinding on a stranger. It’s almost as good as watching 13 year-olds play Snowball at your cousin’s Bar Mitzvah...
...getting face time with America's rising political star proved more difficult. In New York, Notchi tried so hard to approach Obama at front of the Hammerstein Ballroom, where he was attending a Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen concert, he had guns pointed at him by policemen. He went to Obama's house in Chicago, but ended up being taken to a police station for questioning. (The director and the camera crew ran away when he got caught). Finally, three weeks before the election, his luck turned at a rally in St. Louis. The crowd was a 100,000 strong...
...Barack Obama heads into the final 48 hours of his 21-month quest for the White House, everything about his operation exudes optimism and energy and momentum - demonstrated most dramatically at a downtown rally in Cleveland on Sunday evening, where an estimated 80,000 people sang along with Bruce Springsteen to "This Land Is Your Land." But with the finish line in sight, earlier in the day you could get a sense of the edginess that also surrounds this campaign, as Obama's plane headed toward this battleground state and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, checked his watch. "These hours...