Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly a half-century, East German workers have held lifetime jobs in companies that had only to meet production goals, without much concern for costs, quality or innovation. The madness in this method is symbolized by the Trabant, the plastic-enclosed, four-wheel motorcycle posing as a small car. Until last November, customers waited up to 15 years for the privilege of buying one for then 22,000 ostmarks, or about $4,000; currently, the Trabant cannot be sold at any price...
...Akhnaten are costumed as devils and bestial thugs; Gandhi's followers, beaten by police near the opera's close, look like refugees from Night of the Living Dead. Yet there are stage pictures of surpassing beauty too, as when Akhnaten's domestic life is represented by a giant suspended wheel in which sit, friezelike, the Pharaoh and his six identical daughters. Almost unfailingly, Freyer has found an image to match the mood of the music, and it is in such audio-visual synthesis that true opera lies...
...Mazda. The Detroit automaker has a 25% stake in the Japanese company. The convertible, which will be built at a Ford plant near Melbourne, will be the first Australian-made car sold in the U.S. The Capri takes dead aim at the Miata. While the Mazda has rear-wheel drive and two seats, the Mercury offers front-wheel drive and a small backseat. Ford has priced the Capri slightly below its rival: $12,588 for the standard model and $15,522 for a turbocharged version, which Mazda does not offer...
...meeting, most of them in dark tailored suits and some suspected of sporting golf-course tans. Big black limousines waited with motors purring. Five Lincolns, two Chryslers, an estimated $200,000 on the rubber, not including drivers -- all courtesy of the beleaguered budget. Massachusetts' Silvio Conte settled behind the wheel of his own flame red Pontiac GTO convertible, top down, and roared back up Pennsylvania Avenue. The logo on the back fender read THE JUDGE. Message there. These arguments over the people's money are destined to be long and bitter, but there is every evidence that no matter which...
BRAKES. Standard brakes work much like the ones Italy's Tullio Campagnolo designed 40 years ago. To slow a bike, the rider squeezes handgrips, which are attached to cables that pull on caliper arms. The arms, in turn, clamp down on the wheel rims with rubber pads. The system is simple but doesn't always work, especially with heavy loads or on wet roads. After failed brakes sent him into a tree 20 years ago, William Mathauser, an aeronautical engineer from Anacortes, Wash., set out to improve the system. His hydraulic brake has just gone into full production...