Word: limo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNLIMITED MILEAGE. Drug terrorism has increased the cost of getting Attorney General Richard Thornburgh around. The nation's top cop now rides in a $100,000 armor-plated limo instead of a Government-issue...
...talent. And he doesn't mind being this year's hot ticket. The $5 million salary he could command for each picture is a perk. Nor has Costner complained about making movie love to Susan Sarandon in a bathtub (Bull Durham) or Sean Young in the No Way Out limo -- the window-steaming sex scene that earned Costner his first priapic appeal. And for an outdoorsman who was a fine athlete in school, there can be few tangier pleasures than playing baseball in Bull Durham and Field of Dreams or playing a cowboy in Silverado. Even in the Nitti-gritty...
Gorby the sequel. One-upping his walk on the wild side of Washington's Connecticut Avenue last year, Gorbachev twice leaped from his ZIL limo: in front of Bloomingdale's, and earlier on the Great White Way in sight of the Times Square display screen alternating WELCOME GENERAL SECRETARY GORBACHEV with an ad for My Stepmother Is an Alien...
Like Marie Antoinette approaching the guillotine, Imelda Marcos confronted fate with her head high. Stepping from a stretch limo in lower Manhattan, the former Philippine First Lady stunned the waiting throng with her sheer, low- cut turquoise terno -- the national costume in her homeland. Amid pushing photographers and chanting protesters, the elegant attire seemed inappropriate for the occasion: Imelda Marcos was being arraigned, fingerprinted and photographed in federal court...
...limo had hardly pulled to a stop at Tulane University when Jesse Jackson emerged and approached the waiting microphones. "I've registered more Democrats than any other Democrat," he said quickly, without being asked. "Last week -- let me give you a typical Jackson schedule -- I was in New York on Saturday morning, speaking at 10 to a university, Teamsters at 12, Chicago that night. Los Angeles that Sunday; Berkeley, Calif., that Monday; and Georgia for three speeches that Tuesday...