Word: limo
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...miles. All along the drive through the city, which took at least half an hour, the route was lined with people, sometimes five or six deep. There were maybe 100,000 people out on the street, just to get a glimpse of President Clinton driving by in his limo. The impression was that they were drawn by the spectacle -- they weren't cheering and clapping, they were just staring at the huge motorcade. The Chinese met Clinton at the south gate of the city with an elaborate ceremony -- fake fog machines to add atmospherics, all these people in Tang dynasty...
...learns that an ex-boyfriend has returned to Harvard and will be taking an assistant professorship in the Government Department, replete with an office just downstairs from her own. Nikki had always imagined that her next encounter with the dashing Dante Rosario would find her stepping out of a limo on Wall Street in some chic Anne Klein suit. Instead, she's wearing a two-year old dress from Urban Outfitters and carrying her lunch in a plastic sack. Everything Nikki does to try and show Dante the success she's made of her life seems to pale in comparison...
...tram (seats 32) that will take you on a safari through "the Serengeti grassland system," and as one fellow steps into the open-air vehicle, he asks, "Is it air-conditioned?" No, mate, this is reality. Real crocodiles lazing primordially below that rickety bridge. Actual cheetahs motoring their stretch-limo bodies across the savanna. Genuine loamy smell over there near the warthog. (Hakuna matata, guys--it's only nature's perfume...
...CHATTERING CLASSES: Oh, shut up. And turn those klieg lights off. The need to fill airtime by the All-Scandal, All-the-Time networks grew so great that second- and third-tier pundits like me could command a limo. The pressure to top one's colleagues led to premature enunciation of the I word (most conspicuously by George Stephanopoulos to prove his independence) and predictions that the patient had only days to live. When Americans overwhelmingly sided with the President, the press attributed it to falling morals. Virtue pundit Bill Bennett turned on his natural allies--ordinary folk and Billy...
...Cambridge resident reports that between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. his limo was scratched while in a Memorial Drive parking lot by people rubbing against it and jumping...