Word: chauffeur-driven
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...homburg slouched in the back seat of a limousine driven by his uniformed chauffeur. The paper's lampoon was propaganda, all right, but this time it was not aimed at the usual effigy of a capitalist boss. Its target was the Communist Party's own fat cats. In Rumania, as in the rest of Eastern Europe these days, the party is working hard to eradicate one of the biggest and most abused privileges perpetuated by Communism's affluent new class: the chauffeur-driven...
...cars and chauffeurs attached to government agencies and factories are a nagging reminder to more austere party men that their Communist "utopia" is far from classless. In fact, the party press has reported that, proportionately, more middle-level executives are entitled to chauffeur-driven cars in Socialist countries than in the West. Government ministers and factory managers in each of the East European countries fight constantly to enlarge their own pool of cars. They ride in everything from Fiat 600s to Russian Moskvichi, but favor the big and prestigious German Mercedes...
...Harwick--cured--leaving the sanitarium, expressing both the hallucinations of leaving the must have been the final visions of an almost-cured Rooks (he exits by helicopter and waves goodbye to himself, standing on the highest gable of the building), and the simpler reality of his actual exit by chauffeur-driven automobile...
...cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants and a chauffeur-driven limousine, and likes to screen her old movies for guests in the Mao villa. But there she was on stage, drawing noisy applause as she inveighed against such capitalist poisons as "rock 'n' roll, jazz, striptease, impressionism, symbolism, abstractionism, Fauvism and modernism...
...called the Don Juan of the Slanted Eyes. He disrobed an era of Montparnasse models and claims to have painted 3,000 nudes. He once tattooed a watch on his wrist and a ring on his finger; when wealthier, he capped the radiator of his chauffeur-driven automobile with a Rodin bronze. He arrived in France from Japan in 1913 wearing a purple morning coat and a pith helmet; eleven years later he was the most fashionable painter in Paris. Tsugouharu Foujita, now 79, is a living souvenir of the days when the School of Paris was in kindergarten...