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...hero, Danny, is a typically good-looking, suburban jock. His parents drive a Volvo, his golden retriever goes to doggy school, and his kid brother watches video-cassettes all day. Yet there's a void in Danny's life. At some point in his golden youth, something snaps--he trades in his already paved road to success for possessionless servitude in a cult. Michael O'Keefe--the blue-eyed actor last seen as the disturbed son in The Great Santini--does a fine job portraying the troubled Danny. Yet his precarious insecurity, although true to life, becomes unconvincing...
Scott, who is black, is a solid refutation of the widely held notion that feminism is strictly a white, middle-class issue. That remains a common enough criticism, as if the whole movement could be bundled up in a Volvo station wagon and sent off for a spin into irrelevancy. In fact, minority women may still be more concerned with problems of employment and discrimination than with the comparatively rarefied legalities of a constitutional amendment. But even their priority issues, in the words of former NOW President Aileen Hernandez, "flow out of the ERA." Adds Ruth Mandel, director...
...Sweden's most handsomely crafted exports are the medium-powered Volvo and the high-powered entertainer Ann-Margret, 40. Volvo is the Latin word for roll. Ann-Margret, on the other hand, increasingly stands for rock. If there were any doubt, the strawberry-blond performer from Valsjöbyn (pop. 150), Sweden, dispelled it last week when she returned to her homeland for her Swedish debut. Ann-Margret relied on a hip-grinding medley of contemporary rock favorites and old-fashioned Las Vegas showmanship, unpackaging an act containing seven male dancers, three back-up singers, a 26-piece orchestra...
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