Word: velour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small cars proliferate, they are getting flashier; Detroit remains stubbornly convinced that car buyers want luxury along with fuel economy. More and more small cars now sport such features as velour upholstery, vinyl roofs, simulated-wood instrument panels, even chrome-plated grilles and hood ornaments. Such features are pushing prices up close to what drivers used to pay for big cars; a Plymouth Valiant two-door hardtop with all those features, plus three-speed windshield wipers, folding armrest and several other amenities, lists at the factory for about $3,500. Drivers are buying cars plain and fancy, low-and high...
Borrow and Buy. Such sports-struck businessmen, and other Clevelanders like them, did not get together by accident. They were mobilized by Nick James Mileti, 42, son of Sicilian immigrants, who has traded his attorney's narrow lapels for the velour suits and mink coat of a promoter. He makes a business of turning rich fans -and ordinary folk as well -into investors. Since he made sport a career six years ago, the former suburban prosecutor, Jaycee BOUTELLE president and housing consultant has created an athletic empire worth $40 million...
...Berggasse, Vienna, the old brass nameplate was back: Prof. Dr. Freud. Inside, the waiting room, office and study where Sigmund Freud lived and worked for 50 years had been restored with much of the original furniture for its opening last week as a museum. There were his cream-colored velour hat, his checkered sports cap, his ivory-handled cane, sent over from London by his psychoanalyst daughter Anna Freud. She could not bear, however, to part with the famed couch. Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was on hand for the occasion, with a clutch of city councilors, but Vienna is still...
...Zindel's playwriting models, Edward Albee, whose work since he won his prize in 1967 has displeased most reviewers. Says Zindel: "Albee is an example of what happens when one receives a prize and spends too much time shopping for antiques and wallpapering one's bathroom with velour. He's also an example of a playwright who doesn't listen to those who can give him objectivity...