Word: chauffeur
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...symbolism is an appropriate subject for satire, and his "Sex Machine" is an unabashed statement concerning one of the time-honored uses of the automobile. "The Sex Machine's" body is a round bed covered in a plush fur-like red velvet, and sports an overhanging canopy-mirror. The chauffeur sits in hansom coach fashion behind and above the bed so that he can keep his eyes on the road, rather than the passenger compartment--and whatever happens to be going on there...
...Funt, this is even more embarrassing than those scenes you used to show on Candid Camera. "It's almost a classic thing," said Funt. "You trust your accountant for years..." He did notice that the object of his confidence lived well: "He had an enormous wardrobe, paid his chauffeur over $200 a week, had a $60,000 bar mitzvah for his son." Then he heard a story about a man who was swindled by his accountant, and "that triggered something in my mind." After some Funt calls to banks, brokers and the police, Accountant Seymour Goldes was indicted...
Bormann, who is 72 if he is alive, was depicted as being frequently on the move, sometimes out of fear and sometimes simply on business trips, but always accompanied by his chauffeur-bodyguard, "a German-speaking Chilean of Irish descent," Jorge O'Higgins. Bormann wears plastic gloves, said Farago, so that his fingerprints can never be taken, and had a mistress in Santiago who bore him four children. As of a few weeks ago, Farago contended, Bormann was back in Argentina, in Salta province, living in "a cottage on the Rancho Grande, the vast estate of Arndt von Bohlen...
Zilkha, a divorced father of two teenagers, operates out of a spartan office in an old confectionery factory and holds board meetings in the back seat of his chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Besides Zilkha, the company's only directors are his brother Ezra, chairman of Manhattan's Fidelity International Bank, and Mothercare's personnel and property officer. Zilkha himself has made a fortune on babies. Last July the company went public, and his holdings of Mothercare's stock are now worth $13 million...
...after her move from Washington, Martha Mitchell was warmly welcomed by some, though others in the mostly Democratic crowd muttered about her presence. Later she caused an excited flurry by asking if she could use the phone. It turned out, however, that Martha only wanted to ring up her chauffeur...