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#1
Name two sporty American Motors models promoted by their AM supplier, that
company and the model year.

Marlin, Rogue, Budd, 1966

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13558&item=7136181956

#2
Name the American Motors model promoted by that supplier the next year and
an influential work (date it) by an artist in the field referenced.

'67 Rebel, 1956 Sonny Stitt album [he who had worked with Dizzy and Miles]

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http://www.umusic.dk/MCM/covers/Cover_New%20York%20Jaz_300RGB.jpg

#3
Name the later AM model promoted by that same supplier, a world-famous
landmark it chose to show and that structure's architect(s) of record.

1968 Ambassador, UN Secretariat, Wallace K. Harrison (plus Niemeyer and
Corbu)

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http://www.unicnig.org/un-building.jpg

As the first green-glass curtain-wall building in New York, it remained tops
[in height] in its location for over 50 years until it was trumped by the
always-boastful, never-tasteful Donald's -erection- across First Avenue.  If
"giving a city the [gold] finger" is good,  

http://www.trumpworldtower.com/images/mainview.jpg

buying terror-target loft must be better,

http://www.trumpworldtower.com/ipixtour/90_B.html

and living "down in the depths on the 90th floor" [actually on the 86th;
don't expect honesty from some in the "boardroom"] must be best of all.

Trash-with-cash American-style?  Not new.

http://www.lisa-stansfield.com/ditd.htm

Listen to three VERY different versions:
 
Smooth:

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,86255,00.html?src=sear
ch

Swingin':

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,223666,00.html?src=sea
rch

Original:

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,981611,00.html?src=sea
rch

Then decide what -you- hear.

Candide's clearly correct: we live in the best of all possible worlds!

(If you believe that, there's a bridge for sale on the East River, too)









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