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- From: "Mahoney, John" <jmahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:44:21 -0500
#1
Name two sporty American Motors models promoted by their AM supplier, that
company and the model year.
Marlin, Rogue, Budd, 1966
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13559&item=4521194597
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]
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13559&item=4533661182
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)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13559&item=4521911829
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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