That dress is because they had to distract from the front end of that car. She's out of focus, because she insisted. I mean, look at that dress.

Obviously that wasn't the case. After that look finally went away, we've had the good sense, at least, to not revisit it.

The Mercury, which somehow simultaneously wanted to be like a Cadillac's rear end and inspired a generation of Oldsmobiles, has what the ad says is "dramatic styling."

You wonder if people read "dramatic styling" somewhere for the first time and thought Oh, that's clearly a euphemism.

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