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Your choice does a great injustice to the wheel, which took man out of the cave. The computer may put him back...
...priced between $10,000 and $14,000, the G24 will be the first U.S.-built, front-wheel-drive sports car, with a turbocharged four-cylinder engine. So excited is Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca that he is investing $150 million to make the car, more than 10% of Chrysler's 1984 development capital...
...midst of green savannah stretching undisturbed for miles lumbers a Rube Goldberg-like contraption garnished with walkways, conveyor belts, pipes, vents and ducts. With squeaks, clicks, belches and groans, it lurches forward, a 40-ft.-tall wheel revolving at its side. The twelve buckets along the wheel's rim gouge out the earth and occasionally hurl wayward chunks of clay high in the air. Close by, groups of near-naked black tribesmen stand with spears in hand, staring in wonder...
...films are made is akin to one of those long, skidding, agonizing chase sequences shot along the rim of a cliff. Inside their chosen vehicle the egomaniacs scream at fate and one another, all the while kicking and kneeing, punching and gouging as they struggle for control of the wheel. Most movies, as everyone knows, end up in the ravine, bottoms up among the broken and rusting remnants of last year's improbable dreams. A few-sensibly designed or well-balanced or inherently powerful- seem to steer themselves into the theaters, oblivious to the uproar that attended their journey...
Race Car Driver Newman, at the wheel of a Volkswagen Rabbit, also chauffeured Skow around the actor's Westport, Conn., neighborhood at what Skow nervously refers to as "a rather brisk pace." A few days before, Newman had repaired to the back of a limousine to travel around California campaigning for a nuclear freeze. In between some backseat driving, he talked to Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell. During the week that she spent with Newman, Worrell also watched him spellbind waiters at a San Francisco restaurant as he concocted his own salad dressing, rescue a stricken bee that...