Word: limo
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...prepared address the next day. Carter left out a line criticizing political leaders who "ride in limousines too long." Why? Because, Carter explained, "I was kind of embarrassed" about the huge limo that the Secret Service had ordered to convey him to the Wasserman bash. The candidate thereupon directed that he be transported henceforth in regular cars, if security permits...
...Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating his barking skills. The picture's title character, German shepherd Won Ton Ton, arrived by limo, sporting a rhinestone collar and accompanied by his trainer and a social secretary who will be arranging his promotional tour across the U.S. No autographs, please...
...each limo drew up, one heard a brief, collective indrawing of breath as lungs dilated for the big squeal; generally it was followed by a disappointed exhalation, as the couple issuing from the Cadillac turned out to be unrecognizable. Lip gloss, hair spray, three-tone streaks, cocoa-butter tans, insecure Zapata mustaches and wine red crushed velvet tuxedos: the women looked like tennis club matrons and their escorts like croupiers. The teenies had come for Al Pacino, but he was in New York. Prodded by the eupeptic booming of the outside master of ceremonies, they stayed to squeal at Walter...
...love to have it for city driving," quipped Gazzara, who came to the screening decked out in a Capone-style pin-stripe suit, full-length rabbit coat, and half of the extra 20 lbs. he had put on for his role. The fans seemed more interested in the limo than the leading man; after giving Gazzara a polite moment of applause, they quickly crowded round for a close look at the $150,000 mobstermobile...
...Wilbur, I'd never let you go in the water," quipped an elderly wag to Burleycutie Annabella Battistella, alias Fanne Fox, 38. The somewhat dampened Argentine firecracker was in Boston's Pilgrim Theater making her first public appearance since she leaped from Representative Wilbur Mills' limo and took a header into Washington's Tidal Basin. After nursing a couple of shiners in her Arlington, Va., flat (in the same building as the Mills' apartment), Anna returned to the career of burlesque dancer she gave up on Mills' advice a year ago. In no time...