Ford's new Chief Designer, Mays, being interviewed:

``A vehicle doesn't necessarily have to be only to get you to your destination," he says. ``It can be your destination." I asked him if that wasn't also true in the 1950's, in the day of Harley Earl. ``In the fifties, the metaphors involved nothing but jet aircraft or sex," Mays said. ``Now we want a metaphor that is more sophisticated. People feel they cannot be without entertainment for even five minutes today." He paus for a moment. ``I do consider what we do here to be some form of entertainment."

BLOCK THAT METAPHOR!

[From the Helena (Mont.) Independent Record]

``Until I feel comfortable I'm going to be like a burr under a saddle blanket because I want to know exactly what kind of a pig in a pike we bought here," Sen. Chuck Swysgood, R-Dillon, told an informal gathering of lawmakers and state officials.