Poet Marianne Moore was once asked by the Ford Motor Company to help name a new car coming out in 1955. She suggested Resilient Bullet, Ford Silversword, Varsity Stroke, Pastelogram, and Utopian Turtletop. Ford settled on Edsel, leaving the other...
fastback van n.— «“What is it?” asked a judge for the Eyes on Design Awards as he contemplated the Chrysler ecoVoyager, a long blue capsule with a stubby front end grafted onto a minivan body. He and his fellow judges…stared and...