Word: volvo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Years later, FROT gave way to GARP, resulting in honking by tailing motorists and notes under the windshield wipers. Recalls the motorist: "It was like driving around with a sign on your head." The big, blue '78 Checker and white '79 Volvo now in the driveway carry impersonal numbers. The old green and white vanity plates hang at casual angles on a small shed at one end of Irving's swimming pool...
After his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published, Irving's Volvo carried vanity plates bearing the single word FROT. It was a mispronunciation of a familiar four-letter sexual expletive that was used throughout the book by a lunatic European. Says the author in his clean, tight accent: "I lived in Putney for ten years, and people would keep coming up to me and saying, 'What does that mean?' That was a way of revealing to me that they had not read
...Wednesday her family was anxious, and her sister Dianne Ramirez launched a search. In Janice's Volvo, parked at Belmont, Ramirez found a bank statement with a five-figure balance and a note bequeathing the money to Piggy Bank, her riding horse...
...trailer-housed store with a view of the mountain and a stock that includes ballpoint pens filled with ash, 48 types of T shirts, and a record titled Ashfall. Clara Ottosen of Silverlake has converted a barn into a museum filled with Helenic artifacts, including the burned-out Volvo in which National Geographic Photographer Reid Blackburn was interred by a blizzard of ashes...
Wrong, if you said Volvo or Bjorn Borg. It is ABBA, the world's top-selling recording group. But six-year-old ABBA, an acronym for Members Agnetha Faltskog, 31, Bjorn Ulvaeus, 35, Benny Anderson, 34, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 35, earns only part of its income from rock 'n' roll. Much of it comes from sidelines-like importing oil, leasing computers, investing in real estate and running one of the largest art galleries in Europe. These and other enterprises, owned by ABBA and its manager Stig Anderson, 50, netted roughly $20 million on sales...