| A behind-the-scenes look with models who show off the cars
The models go through a four-hour training about the vehicles and are dressed in John Galliano, Gianfranco Ferr and Roberto Cavalli gowns a face-lift to last year's "older world elegance," inspired by Grace Kelly and Sophia Loren. Maserati's Michigan teams contacted local agencies to find the perfect fit for their image this year: sexy and sparkling with luxury, like champagne, Soriani said. "We want beautiful girls, but not top models. They would be too intimidating to talk with." Instead, Soriani said, Maserati's aim was to find pretty girls with the gift of gab. "When someone sees a Maserati, we expect the person to point and say, 'Hey, look at the girl, or the guy driving the Maserati.'" This is the kind of thinking that builds what a person sees from our company," Soriani said.
Hi-ho, the derry-o, a farmer meets a girl
When a new girlfriend showed up to see dairy farmer Joe Engel at work, he took an anxious breath when she walked through the barn door. No doubt about it, she was cute. But Engel, 26, had been down this country road before. "I glanced up and saw her holding her nose, and that was it," says the farmer, whose family owns Luck-E Holsteins in Hampshire, Ill. "It dawned on me -- why waste any more of your time, or my time?" .
Hax: Dating woes might be a bigger problem
Carolyn: I find myself in another futureless relationship, just passing the time until being single seems more enticing than dating this person. At which point, we'll break up. A month or two later, I'll start the cycle again. Yuck. Is this what dating has become? How do I get off the Dating Hamster Wheel of Despair (DHWD)?Passing TimeThis is what dating has become for you. Making it a universal problem is a quick way to make it seem too vast to repair.So, as just one hamster on just one wheel, you have just one question to answer — why do you keep getting back on? Thinking like a hamster, I'd have to guess you're bored with your cage.In other words, if relationship catatonia is more enticing than being single, you need to make being single more enticing. Get off the wheel (now, please), and commit yourself to a ruthless inventory of your day-to-day life.
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