Word: stickered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only the naive agree to pay the window-sticker price for U.S.-made autos. The factory list price is merely the point at which bargaining can begin...
After the 1960 elections, a true loser was defined as the owner of an Edsel with a Nixon sticker on its bumper. The Edsel cannot have the kind of revenge on its detractors that Richard Nixon has enjoyed; it will not rule the roads, or even be put back into production. In its way, however, the ponderous auto with the odd grille, which lost more than $200 million for the Ford Motor Co. in 1957-'59, is making a comeback. A band of loyal loser lovers is lavishing affection and dollars on the survivors of the 110,847 Edsels...
...banks of the Mississippi River. Good beer that Jax. And cheap: only thirty cents in most bars. People drink it all the time. Last night I had a dream that the daily afternoon cloud burst happened to be Jax beer this time around. It was a little sticker than the usual rain, but no one in New Orleans was surprised. I can't imagine them ever being surprised...
...making Hugh Calkins seem abstract and disembodied. In running through his career as a school crusader, his theories on dissent, his theme of practicality, it is easy to forget that he is a man who sometimes wears how ties, who has a station wagon with a "Go Browns" sticker on the back window, who has little children who can be less than charming...
...dodges between whining jets at the airport and ends with McQueen pulling a gun-strangely enough, considering the violence, for the first time in the picture-to cut down his quarry and win his little war. In the end, Vaughn skulks off in a car with the ironic bumper sticker: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE. If they were all like Bullitt, everyone could and would...