Word: chauffeured
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Where did the author get this previously unrecorded conversation? Was it a line overheard by J.F.K.'s chauffeur? A scene invented by Prescott in the throes of madness? A wink to the initiated? Only the late Julian Prescott, alas, could have said for sure...
After the Sheraton Plaza dance, after we had ushered the last of the celebrants onto his bus (where everyone was singing Harvard fight songs), and after we had scoured the ballroom for forgotten handbags and gloves (discovering mostly lost shoes instead), the head chauffeur hugged the executive secretary and then they both looked at all the rest of us and shook their heads warmly and sadly. It was like straight out of one of Chekhov's final curtains, all the faithful family retainers standing around chuckling knowingly over the foolishness of their masters...
...face, and consequently imperfections, is not at all what they would have suspected. But even though he is not the butler on television, they are impressed. The general, remembering that I do not drive, said that he enjoyed driving and got into the Iriver's seat himself. Highest paid chauffeur you'll ever have, he said to me. This manner made quite a hit with the congressman...
...road at speed. When he whined around a curve to face a juggernaut diesel on the wrong side of the road, Karajan took evasive action, turned the Ford over twice and totaled it. Unscathed and cucumber cool, he unsnapped his seat belt and phoned from a farmhouse for his chauffeur to bring the Rolls. After the Fidelio that night-a smash success, of course-he called his dealer to order another souped...
...scenes occur to the audience more or less as they do to Marcello. A flash forward near the film's end puts Marcello in the last night of Mussolini's regime, wandering the streets in confusion. He overhears two homosexuals flirting and turns to confront the chauffeur he thought he had murdered. But the only thing Marcello had really murdered was an accurate memory of the incident. There was no killing. The last scene finds him confronting his nature for the first time as the other homosexual makes an advance...