Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they should be practical. The Voyager/Caravan will combine the were boxy rump of a van with the the truncated front end of a car. Known in automotive circles as a minivan, it was designed for people who want something smaller than a van make and bigger than a station wagon. Though comparatively squat nomads (more than a foot less in height than most vans) , it can carry a load of 1,200 lbs., only 100 lbs. less than standard models. If used to cart people, the minivan seats seven, one more than a typical station wagon...
Police estimated the value of property stolen from February 10 to February 16 at $4121.85 including a Volks wagon Van valued at $2500 that was stolen from the Broad way garage...
...under museum conditions, the essential monumentality of Smith's vision remains. Even the biggest pieces, like the disquieting Wagon I (a "personage" consisting of a rectangular helm set on a swollen belly made of two tank ends welded together, all balancing on a huge forged chassis), suggest a sense of the figure and accordingly evoke responses from one's own body. They convey forceful impressions of posture, gesture and attitude. Smith was not in the business of making large iron dolls, and it may be, as various critics have pointed out, that the usual verticality of his sculptures...
...reluctance to view cigarette production as immoral is widespread. Supporters of companies like Philip Morrison reason that the guiding tenet of American commerce has been consumer freedom of choice, from the days of wagon-pushing peddlers selling magic elixirs to computerized, stylized Madison Avenue marketing. As long as smokers understand the risks cigarettes pose, many believe, others have no business trying to discourage or eliminate tobacco production...
...thinking that law-and-order is threatened mainly by stereotypical violent crime. When the foundations of U.S. law have actually been shaken, however, it has always been because ordinary law-abiding citizens took to skirting the law. Major instance: Prohibition. Recalls Donald Barr Chidsey in On and Off the Wagon: "Lawbreaking proved to be not painful, not even uncomfortable, but, in a mild and perfectly safe way, exhilarating." People wiped out Prohibition at last not only because of the alcohol issue but because scofflawry was seriously undermining the authority and legitimacy of government. Ironically, today's scofflaw spirit, whatever...