Word: chauffeur
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...smoldering with hatred for his fellow man. Puntila sober, as Brecht sees it, is a class-conditioned animal. Puntila drunk is Rousseau's child of instinctive natural goodness. Some richly comic scenes pivot on this personality split. Puntila sober wouldn't dream of fraternizing with his chauffeur Matti; Puntila drunk begs Matti to marry his daughter. Puntila drunk gets engaged to four separate girls; Puntila sober throws the brides-to-be off his estate...
While the doctors worked, Jackie stood in a corner with Presidential Physician George Burkley and "rested her spattered cheek" on Burkley's shoulder, then "knelt in the President's blood and closed her eyes in prayer." Later, in the corridor, Secret Service Chauffeur Bill Greer came up to her and sobbed, "Oh Mrs. Kennedy, oh my God, oh my God, I didn't mean to do it, I didn't hear, I should have swerved the car, I couldn't help it." Then he embraced her and wept on her shoulder...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden in Sabrina (1954), the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who becomes the toast of Long Island society...
...Mike Nichols affixed one to her car), but it didn't console her much at all. It was largely in an effort to change the image that Julie took on a straight role in The Americanization of Emily. She played a freshly widowed World War II British Army chauffeur whose notion of rest and rehabilitation for the wounded went considerably beyond TV and touch football. Her loyal friends say that she never performed better, but Julie, perhaps her own best critic, is convinced that she was "rather lost...
...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...