Word: chauffeur
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Katharine Hepburn is an odd bird. Hemorrhaging after an eye operation, she yells to her chauffeur, "David, take off your shoes and socks and your pants -- and get into the tub and try to get the blood out of the stuff I throw in there." With her lover Howard Hughes, two of the skinniest eccentrics of our time, she dives naked off the wing of his seaplane. In a chapter about another beau, the agent Leland Hayward, Hepburn talks about living in Los Angeles' Coldwater Canyon, living in Benedict Canyon, finding a snake in her living room, buying real estate...
...coup attempt sparked a flash of excitement at party headquarters, which is located across the street from the Chelsea Hotel in downtown Manhattan. About 8:30 a.m. every workday, Hall's chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile (he buys American and uses a cellular phone) pulls up to the curb in front of the eight-story brownstone, where staff members, still harboring paranoia left over from the days when the FBI tapped their lines and read their mail, answer the phone "4994" and dispatch envelopes without the party's name. Once in the building, Hall, a four-time presidential candidate, climbs into...
...almost 400 members of the Central Committee, once one of the country's most powerful institutions, suddenly faced the prospect of losing their jobs as well as the privileges -- from dachas to chauffeur-driven sedans -- that so infuriated the average Soviet worker. Gorbachev's decision, however, did more than rip the heart out of the once monolithic party. His move signaled that the Communist Party's influence over the country's affairs was finished once and for all, its structure shattered and its 15 million members across the country forced to reshape their political allegiances...
...nice not to get stuck in traffic. There's the helicopter set, of course, but my particular fondness is for the irrepressible way billionaire builder Sam LeFrak once had his chauffeur drive us up on the sidewalk when a garbage truck blocked...
...case with his colleagues. "We were not appointed to this court to make the law. We're here to interpret it." Yet the decisive moment for Chief Justice Earl Warren (Richard Kiley) is rendered in simplistic human terms: an inspirational trip to Gettysburg and the sight of his black chauffeur sleeping in the car because he can't get a motel room. What was all that legal mumbo jumbo anyway...