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This fall Volvo is making a bid for the performance market by introducing the 760 GLE, with racy options like a turbo-charged diesel engine and leather seats. Its sharply sloping hood and raised trunk make the 760 GLE look more like a new Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera than a Volvo. And with a price tag of as much as $21,500, it will cost several thousand dollars more to purchase than a Cadillac Coupe de Ville...
...skills owe much, as Cavett points out, to certain illustrious forebears: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope-"and Oliver Hardy-that burn, that long look into the lens." Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the right-wing dimwit Floyd R. Turbo, even the huckstering greaseball Art Fern. Carnac the Magnificent is Steve Allen's Answer Man in swami's drag, and the Mighty Carson Art Players are Fred Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players with unreliable props. Carson's borrowings are leavened with respect and an originality...
...Gallegos I was put aboard a six-seat air force Turbo Commander bound for Comodoro Rivadavia. It was jammed with commuting army officers. There were no buenos dias, no smiles. Just two hours of their staring impassively at the American passenger. Their looks said they assumed I was there because I had done something wrong, something against them and their country...
...truth be told, very few Mantovani afficionados here. And "noisy or disorderly occupants of a room in a dormitory under University supervision" are very rarely, if ever dismissed. A few years ago, some Kirkland House students built a disco dance floor in their room, complete with strobes and turbo-charged stereos. Every night, they danced. all through the fall semester, even though their dance floor was also the ceiling of the Master's bedroom. Finally they were called on the carpet. Their punishment? They would have to dismantle the dance floor...
...Brookline all maligned Pissarro, though none of them had ever held a brush. When they got to the car there was a notice on it that said the convertible was being converted to a condominium and they had the option to buy. From Huntington Avenue came the sounds of turbo-powered portable stereos and the roar of Trans-Ams. The name of such cars was not lost on them. Suddenly, the Colonel was at their elbows...