|  Electra Waggoner Biggs was born a Texas cattle and oil man's daughter, but left the Lone Star State for Bryn Mawr, Columbia and the Sorbonne. Upon her return she became a revered sculptress, best known for her work "Into the Sunset," memorializing cowboy actor Will Rogers. In 1959, the President of Buick (and Electra's husband's brother-in-law) named a flagship sedan after the middle aged Texan. Today's Buick Lucerne is named after a quaint Swiss tourist trap, with only a failed peasant's revolt to its name. And there you have it: Buick has tossed away decades of brash Americana for subdued Euro-style. That's beyond stupid.
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