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...sales expected to grow just 3% this year, automakers are scaling back production schedules and idling plants. Ford, which had declared three temporary closings in January, said it would also shut a Canadian plant that makes full-size Crown Victorias for a week beginning Monday, and close a Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar facility in Ohio for two weeks...
...straight stuff that delivers Rory's father to hell. After the mother of his three young daughters dies, he marries Aimee Desiree, a wild Creole beauty half his age. The marriage -- and the faithless Aimee Desiree -- is doomed. She meets her fate at 3 a.m. in a white Thunderbird hurtling along a narrow causeway across Lake Pontchartrain. The daughters never hear their father mention her again, but the moment of her passing envelopes each of them. The author understands a fundamental truth about Southerners: to them, she writes, "sweet and sad mean the same thing." Like an expert mixologist, Bosworth...
MARC COHN: MARC COHN (Atlantic). Nimble songwriting and heartfelt singing in the kind of debut album that harkens back to the halcyon days of James Taylor and Jackson Browne. Taylor, in fact, joins in on one tune, but on tracks like the streamlined Silver Thunderbird and Walking in Memphis, Cohn shows off a style that's clearly...
...with the wheels 10 in. farther back than standard to create more legroom and a stabler ride -- is mostly a California creative product. But, in general, Detroit has been typically cautious in handing design responsibilities to the Californians. Ford's chief designer, Jack Telnack, allows that the recent Thunderbird and Escort models have only been "influenced" by notions from their people on the coast...
...women are sympathetic enough characters by this time so that we leap over the hurdle many adventure movies present -- Why didn't they call the police? -- and rationalize what might be a cold-blooded murder as an act of self-defense. That way we can climb into that green Thunderbird, put down the roof and go along for the joyride...