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...Professor Scrutiny Version Two suggested a more politicized approach. Working title: "My Professor's Totally Loaded! Faculty Salaries at Harvard." We'd dig and dig until we discovered who was making the big bucks and which professors got offers from Harvard they just couldn't refuse--a new Volvo, sabbatical every other year, a mega-office. Could have been great but without much enthusiasm from the FM editorial staff the story pooped out--dead again...
...countless drug trips, a brief stint as Governor of American Samoa and a classic turn as dean of Caribbean medical school, where students pioneered the transplant of a liberal heart into a conservative body (doctors were sure it was liberal heart because the body had been pulled from a Volvo). I often turn to Duke, my Trudeau talisman, for inspiration when writing papers, studying Greek or just seeking the meaning of life. For in my opinion, the answers to all the big questions lie in the panels of Doonesbury...
...1970s, Plymouth's domestic sales maxed out at 750,000 per annum, buoyed by its success in stock car racing. Then globalization - and fuel shortages - set in. In more recent times, the Detroit behemoths have begun to gobble up foreign automakers, notably Volvo and Saab, with younger demographics and better brand images, and some of America's most famous brand names, such as Plymouth and Oldsmobile, have begun to feel the pinch as the companies seek to cut marketing and advertising costs by focusing on brands with a more youthful image. Oldsmobile, with sagging sales throughout the decade despite many...
Life's a bitch, and then your Volvo dies. As millennium fever reaches hysterical new heights in the final months of 1999, it seems that everything and everyone in America has something to be worried about: computers, Bill Gates, non-Christians, even yuppies. That's right: if movies are any indicator of the American psyche, even the high priests of American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means...
Life's a bitch, and then your Volvo dies. As millennium fever reaches hysterical new heights in the final months of 1999, it seems that everything and everyone in America has something to be worried about: computers, Bill Gates, non-Christians, even yuppies. That's right: if movies are any indicator of the American psyche, even the high priests of American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means...