Word: barracudas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only completely redesigned full-sized car is the Lincoln, which, among other things, now has a body bolted to the frame for a quieter ride. Several cars have more powerful engines; the biggest of all is the Cadillac Eldorado's, at 500 cu. in. The Plymouth Barracuda is one of the few cars that have had enough sheet-metal changes to give the body a new look. The game of hide-and-seek has taken a new turn. Disappearing headlights have been dropped on all G.M. cars except the Corvette, but hidden windshield wipers have been made standard...
FISHES, by Brian Wildsmith (Watts; $4.95), presents a selection of collective nouns (a battery of barracuda, a glide of flying fish) with marvelous paintings...
...will be priced at $3,126 (up $109), the Plymouth station wagon with V-8 engine at $3,292 (up $139), the popular Dodge Charger at $3,125 (up $85), the Road Runner at $2,974 (up $78). On the other hand, the price of the slow-selling Barracuda fastback will...
...beauty, not cosmetics; oral gratification, not cigarettes. Depthwise, baking a cake is supposedly a re- enactment of childbirth and shaving a form of castration. Speed and performance, or a sense of male power, are blatantly stressed in automobile commercials. Cars become wild animals or fish Wildcat, Impala, Cougar, Stingray, Barracuda. When a man slips behind the wheel humming "Only Mustang makes it happen," he, too, becomes a big ripsnorting stud. Ridiculous? Well, whoever heard of a car called the Aardvark or the Pussycat...
Today, Mr. U.S. finishes his breakfast of frozen orange juice and diet-bread toast, pops a vitamin pill into his mouth, steps into his fastback Barracuda, punches the tape deck button for swing or symphony, and heads for the freeway. The six-lane concrete strip lets him proceed at 65 m.p.h. toward his office in town-except when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension...