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...wash seduces the Grand Vitara. --Vehicle is massaged by soapy lather and gentle brushes. --Rear angle of [car]. We see water explode off sheet metal. --Interior shot..we see water drops dancing down the windshield. --The dryer caresses the windshield. --The Grand Vitara emerges from the car wash. --From inside, we see the towel boy waiting in awe. --Reverse angle as Grand Vitara emerges. The badge glistens...
Gates visited one Senate office after another Monday trying to lather on a little of his personal charm. But even his escort, Vin Weber, a former Congressman who's now a full-time Washington fixer, couldn't smooth Gates' prickly edges. "It was like fingernails on a blackboard," said a participant in one of the meetings. "You'd think with all that money he's paying to his advisers they'd tell him how to behave in front of a U.S. Senator...
...must have been keenly aware of that fact one morning last week when he stretched a tentative toe into his green-tinted bathtub, while he gazed at his face with its little mustache and flopping hair, as he covered his chin with lather (at the Berghof the great dictator is his own barber), while he sipped his Chinese tea, spooned his porridge and chewed his morning toast...
...locals were worked into a lather last week not by media parasites but by the fear that Brentwood would be misread by the outside world...
...everyone is in a lather. World-history professor Dan Sipe uses Keene's work in discussing everything from economics to philosophy. As in, What is art? (It was Sipe's musings that prompted drawing professor Steve Sherman to call him a gasbag, at which point the argument degenerated into obscenities.) Art-history student Heather Nash, a Keene fan, says, "I've never seen an exhibit here that produced this much enthusiasm." She's talking about the visitors--some of them doing their holiday shopping--who wait for the gallery to open each day. Darren Check, a law student at Temple...