This advertisement was in the March 19, 1949 issue of the New Yorker. The same issue as Salinger's Laughing Man.

 For your enjoyment. 

 This is an illustration of a real car. As hard as that is to believe. 

You could get a king sized bed in it, if you cared to.  

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Love Gone Bad 

 I was thinking about these when I was posting a comment on Major Mojo's Top Ten Breakup Songs.

Love gone bad is a more general category than the breakup song. And, it is ubiquitous, so you are picking from a universe of maybe 1/3 of all popular songs. 

Diane Birch - I Go Crazy

I like this cover a lot more than the Paul Davis 1970's original.

Especially the way the intensity builds around the word, 'crazy.'

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Aimee Mann - 4th Of July

Your basic woulda, coulda, shoulda song.

'Today's the fourth of july 
Another june has gone by 
And when they light up our town I just think 
What a waste of gunpowder and sky 
I'm certain that I am alone 
In harbouring thoughts of our home 
It's one of my faults that I can't quell my past 
I ought to have gotten it gone.

Oh, baby, I wonder - 
If when you are older - 
Someday- 
You'll wake up 
And say, 'my god, I should have told her - 
What would it take? 
But now here I am and the world's gotten colder 
And she's got the river down which I sold her.

So that's today's memory lane 
With all the pathos and pain 
Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless 
And they're always the same 
A verse, then a verse, and refrain ...'

The twist on this one is that person A is wistfully thinking about person B regretting not having  persued a relationship. A typical thought. But in this song, done with much more wistfullness than anger.

Years later, that idiot, person B, realizes that he shoulda TOLD her (instead of asked her) which means something -- maybe that it woulda been easy. What would it have taken? And instead of catastrophe, the world has just gotten colder, &c. 

I couldn't quite figure it out until I read the lyrics, and even then -- maybe I have it wrong.  

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It was still a low riding monster of a car. The slightly smaller Hornets became NASCAR legands in the early 50's.

Unfotunately, it took computers to really get it right. And now, we are beyond caring, as we come closer to optimizing, it becomes first homogeneous, then generic.