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...well because of the plot, which combines a serious drama with dashes of brittle good-humor. Paulie's rather limited vocabulary and satire of the lifestyle of small-time gangsters. New York City is the colorful setting for the film, which features scenes of the gritty city rooftops, velour interiors, and the all-too-appropriate music of Frank Sinatra...
...have a velour chair that is covered with wet plaster," he said...
...that forces the user to have proper posture. One Chicago distributor expects to sell 15,000 of the chairs this year, up from less than 1,000 in 1979. Another popular item, particularly favored by truck drivers and police officers, is the Sacro-Ease, a plastic or velour car seat that provides support for the small of the back. Made by McCarty's of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the Sacro-Ease retails...
...welders and material handlers slowed initial production so that only 10,000 cars, less than a third the number needed, were in showrooms on the official introduction date, Oct. 2, 1980. Chrysler flubbed in other ways as well. lacocca sent the earliest models out with high-profit options like velour upholstery and electric window lifts that pushed the sticker price from $6,000 up to $9,000. But buyers did not want the extras. Until the production imbalance was corrected, sales did not really take...
Other disciples, seated at terminals scattered around the room, are no less absorbed. Meilin Wong, 15, chic in blue velour blouse, jeans and Bass moccasins, is trying to figure out what went wrong with her business data-management program. She is an old hand at such troubleshooting, having spent much of last semester "debugging" a program that, when printed out, stretches over 30 ft. Jim McGuire, 13, is creating a video game called Spaceship, which will let electronic star warriors zap a boxy-looking orbital intruder. A more mundane program is emerging from 15-year-old Dave McCann...