Word: chauffeur
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...Never had such an understanding boss," said the chauffeur as he nicked a dustcloth over the Rolls-Royce convertible. And small wonder, for the "boss" is Andrei Porumbeanu, 38, a chauffeur himself until he got a divorce and shifted into high life by marrying Runaway Heiress Gamble Benedict, 22, whose grandmother tried to detour the romance. But now Granny is dead, the happy couple snugly ensconced in a 26-room villa in Erlenbach, Switzerland, where Gambi's inheritance makes life tolerable and the photographers drop by once in a while to snap them with their two handsome sons. Gheorghe...
Love Is a Ball reaches way back to those zany rich-girl-marries-chauffeur comedies of the '30s for its plot. To give Ball new bounce, Director David Swift (The Parent Trap] has transferred the action to the Riviera, hustled in a bagful of props: a pink yacht with matching luggage, a custard-cake skyscraper for dessert, a floating baby grand for the pool. But to keep this kind of souffle inflated is primarily up to a bubbly blonde. Hope Lange. She is the chauffeur-chasing American heiress who keeps a sports-car engine in her bedroom, a collection...
...time, Ligeti has suggested, the breakdown of the tonality which required playing in one direction (forward) only, has created forms that can be passed through in several directions in time. As a result, Ligeti says, in the Third Piano Sonata, performed by Leonard Stein, Boulez makes "the interpreter the chauffeur, who can drive in any one of a number of directions along the routes planned by the composer and signposted in advance." In its initial form (Boulez always leaves himself the option of modifying his works), the sonata consists of five segments or "formants" which can be played in various...
...murder of Henri Lafond, 68, president of the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne. France's second largest investment bank. In the fashionable Paris suburb of Neuilly one morning last week, he set out for his office but got no farther than the back seat of his chauffeur-driven...
Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...