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...backyard court, spends a lot of time troubleshooting on the phone ("Right, Ed, I'll check on it first thing Monday morning"), and any strange occurrences in the outside world can be quickly swept away with a flick of the wiper-washer switch on his blue-gray Volvo. Ignore for the moment that Chamberlain seems to have only recently been introduced to his family, that his wife (Olivia Hamnett) is rather oaken, and that Chamberlain, who supposedly grew up in Sydney, hasn't a trace of an accent--because things are about to get rolling...
...woman stabs to death the idiot farm boy who rapes her. One of the most horrifying (and at the same time, exhilirating) passages in recent memory involves Garp driving his children home from the movies. He has a habit of turning off the lights and coasting the family Volvo uphill and into his garage at night. Moving slowly, he rams the rear end of the station wagon where his college professor wife sits in the front seat giving a farewell blow job to her student lover. One of his sons loses an eye; the other is thrown into the sear...
Cars, cars-the new elite also loves cars. Many auto salesmen echo Bob Niland, who works at Volvo Village near Boston: "Before 1970 our buyers were families where just the husband worked. Now, at least among the younger buyers, the wife almost always works." These buyers, he adds, look for reliability and safety rather than glamour...
...capital punishment? Do you drive a Volvo? (The distinction is hardly complete or infallible; plenty of businessmen and blue-collar workers detest Nixon.) Some have argued that Watergate was the effort (a successful one) by the New Class to repeal the results of the 1972 election. Well, crime is crime: Congress and the courts, not the New Class, brought Nixon down. But the argument has a metaphorical, symbolic appeal to those who feel Nixon was destroyed for who and what he was, not what...
Gyllenhammar faces opposition from Sweden's contentious union leaders, who are alarmed because some 500 of the company's 41,626 domestic jobs will be lost to the Norwegians. But he has a powerful argument: unless Volvo gets help, it is bound to decline...