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...wife Marianne returned from a trip to Europe to discover a sickly sweet smell permeating their home. Then Les found the source: Jamon's decomposing body in the backseat of a restored Cadillac in the attached four-car garage. Jamon had apparently suffocated himself with carbon-monoxide fumes...
Karenna has always had a healthy sense of fun. In high school she raised money for her student government by wrestling a pig into the backseat of a friend's car and raffling off votes for which teacher would have to kiss it. She is the first to show up at a party. And she doesn't care much for Washington, even though that's where her father and grandfather taught her to ride her bike, on the Capitol grounds, and where she went to school. She shares her father's attachment to Tennessee, where she was born. "Everyone says...
...considered possibilities (raw-meat sandwiches?), a little voice piped up from the backseat. "Do you know what I want for my birthday?" Having forgotten exactly who remained in the car, I fell back on a generic response: "Chocolate cake, pink-frosting flowers and a personalized birthday serenade from a famous teenybopper-heartthrob band?" The voice replied, "No, I want to stay home and play with friends in the backyard...
Hands reach inside the Suburban, eager to touch Fox, even though the bodyguards are quickly cranking up the windows. In the backseat, Fox's sleek and bronzed daughter, Ana Cristina, 20, looks scared that the windows might burst under the hammering from Fox's aficionados. "My father," she says with as much worry as pride, "is a phenomenon." By now, Fox is busy flashing the V sign to passing cars, while at the same time combing confetti out of his brown hair and swigging orange Gatorade. Something has to give, and it's the Gatorade, which Fox sloshes all over...
...about a car horn that sprays sedatives into the air to knock out the idiot driver ahead and get him out of your way? On-the-run oil changes should be within reach of automotive science by the year 2025. And nuisance-sensing, high-voltage "stun cushions" to silence backseat drivers for the duration. Smart windshield wipers that shred any leaflet, handbill or parking ticket stuck under them? By 2025, a cinch...