Word: wackos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farther on less gas than their U.S. competitors. Chrysler's fleet averages 27.5 m.p.g., vs. 24.3 for Ford and 24.1 for GM. If falling oil prices spur a demand for old-fashioned big cars, Chrysler will hurt the worst. Says lacocca: "What's happening with gasoline is wacko. It's crazy. We needed to slap at least a quarter on the pump so that people didn't get into dirty habits and start buying those rear-wheel-drive New Yorkers like they were going out of style...
...Jefferson Park kids are still in good spirits even though they have been hanging out for almost nine hours. Twelve-year-old Henry Cabarea tells us, "These are wacko people, totally freaky...
...rich-quick innocents coping with the darker side of the American Dream-the fear that even with money and social access they could never belong. Eleven years later, the Clampetts are settled, even smug, with no remaining sense of wonder about the world. CBS has concocted a wacko two-hour plot about using moonshine to replace gasoline. But there are no warmhearted wackos to populate it, except Imogene Coca, too late to save the show as the late Granny's eccentric...
...Koch would argue that he acts toward everybody equally, but as a former aide says, "Ed treats everyone the same? badly." Nor does it help matters when Koch works himself into a state and starts hurling words at his critics like "wacko" and "ideologue...
Lanford Wilson possesses something that any pol might envy. He controls the wacko constituency-weirdos, crazies and freaks. Fifth of July is a redo of his The Hot l Baltimore, transported to a creaky ancestral house in Lebanon, Mo. Aunt Sally (Mary Carver), wooed and won in Wilson's romantic drama, Talley's Folly, has come back 30-odd years later to scatter her late husband's ashes. On hand are some of the walking wounded of the intoxicant wars...