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...Britain's Austin-Healey Sprite, a junior edition of the popular Austin-Healey 100 sports car. It has seats for two, a convertible top, and a price tag suited to college-boy billfolds: $1,795. Another entry: the handsome AC Aceca hardtop coupé that seats two with plenty of luggage space, goes 106 m.p.h., and costs around...
Once upon a time, in the dank and gloomy castle of Monteloup in old Poitou, there lived an impecunious baron and his daughter Angélique, a wild and barefoot sprite who played, perhaps more than she should, with the peasant boy Nicholas. Looking to Angélique's beauty to save him from ruin, the baron betrothed her to the Comte de Peyrac de Morens, known as the Great Lame Devil of Languedoc, who was said to be so ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned...
...lure more motorists into sports cars, British Motor Corp. this week added a low-priced stablemate to its MGs and Austin-Healeys, which now give it the biggest share ($49,500,000 a year) of the U.S. sports-car market. The new entry: Austin-Healey's Sprite. Price in Manhattan: $1,849, the cheapest British sports car (next cheapest: MG, at $2,526). Powered by a souped-up 48-h.p. version of Austin's four-cylinder A35 engine, the two-passenger Sprite does 35 miles on a gallon, accelerates from o to 70 m.p.h. in 34 seconds...
...Whatever were you burning? It smells very funny." Most readers will agree, but Daddy is recalled to his responsibilities, the Labor Party and Mother. Novelist Murdoch's plain moral: better a dull fate than an absurd adventure. But the figure of Rain, that Audrey Hepburn sprite, has become an obsessively recur rent character in Iris Murdoch's work, suggesting that inside every female philosopher there is a pixy struggling to be let out to play...
Stumbling into quicksand, the hero is on the point of disappearing when he is saved by Maila, Ina's kindly sorceress-grandmother. His former friends ostracize him for wanting to marry Ina--who, loving him, cannot marry because she fears churches. And so on, until our sprite meets a tragic end, dying on the forest floor under a full moon; and only the owls answer her lover's frantic calls...