Word: volvo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exports has pushed some Communist nations into a further affront to ideology: inviting capitalists in as partners to make their industries more efficient. In Hungary, for example, Corning Glass Works of the U.S. owns 49% of a Hungarian company that will produce blood gas analyzers and Sweden's Volvo has a minority share in a vehicle-production plant...
Opening scene: the trustees are interviewing the Parkers in Artist Helen Frankenthaler's Manhattan digs. The Parkers are bemused by the Volvo station wagon in the middle of Frankenthaler's studio, virtually speechless, and slowly beginning to realize that Bennington is serious about them as candidates. A month later, the couple is chosen and introduced to the students at commencement as "Gail and Tom." Scene fades as the commencement "speaker," a black jazz musician (obviously either sloshed or stoned) gets up to play a bass solo. Close-up of Gail: a look of amazement. "What have we done...
...newly separated from her law-student husband, she tried to kill herself. She put her head in a gas oven, but her aunt pulled her out. Since then she has drunk a can of Drano, slashed her wrists, taken an overdose of Valium and driven her Volvo into the Pacific. Finally, at 27, she has written a "choreopoem" titled For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf (TIME, June 14). She felt it would be criticized as "too emotional, too colored and too female." Instead, it is the sleeper hit of the off-Broadway season...
...Volvo: diesel-operated (22-24 m.p.g.); 75.6 in. wide; 67.7 in. high; wheelbase 120 in. Carries four passengers; entry through a sliding door...
Udall demonstrated in Michigan that he cannot be taken for granted; he keeps on coming. Brown showed in Maryland that he can have wide appeal. He won Scoop Jackson's lunch-bucket crowd, Mo Udall's suburban Volvo votaries, and cut deeply into Carter's ghetto constituency; Catholics also flocked to the former Jesuit seminarian...