Cadillac
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.” -― Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man |
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Cadillac is a brand of luxury vehicles owned by General Motors. By extension, any brand that represents the most luxurious or highest quality example in its class.
In the mid-20th century, the name became a synonym within the United States for "high quality", used in such phrases as "the Cadillac of watches," referring to a Rolex. Cadillac's current slogan is Life. Liberty. And The Pursuit., in reference to the inalienable rights mentioned in the United States Declaration of Independence.
See also
- Pimpmobile
- Cadillac Eldorado
- Cadillac Ranch (1974)
- Zwei Beton Cadillacs in Form der nackten Maja (1987)
- Concrete Traffic (1970)
- Tailfin
- Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
