Word: limos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cleveland Indians are back for spring training, but last year's renegade underdogs are this season's big-time superstars. With big-time egos to match. From the first white stretch limo that appears in the baseball stadium's parking lot, complete with party babes in skimpy spandex, "Major League II" lets us know that success has corrupted the lovable bunch of ragtag Indians. In their new-found fame, the players have forgotten the humble roots that gave them their grit and winning quality. It's the dilemma posed by the American dream: how to move from rags to riches...
...devoted admirer like deejay Jonathan Schwartz, though, maintains that the functioning is increasingly hollow. The act is done by rote now, says Schwartz, who is the host of Sinatra-oriented radio shows six days a week on % New York City's WQEW-AM. "The process is so machinelike: the limo drive, the placing of the tuxedo on his body by his dresser, the sip of alcohol, the psychological procession of ritualistic movement, the depth of his solitude in the middle of it all, the elaborate moat that surrounds his heart and soul -- to say it's an American tragedy...
Stories about her pettiness are legion: the time in Boston she telephoned the management of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to complain that the Ritz- Carlton's room service had put peas in her pasta; the time when, feeling chilly while riding in a limo in Southern California, she used the cellular phone to call her management company in New York, which phoned the limo service, which phoned the driver, who turned the air conditioning down; the time in New York when she and Luciano Pavarotti competed to see which could arrive later for a dress rehearsal. Battle has a penchant...
...limo sitting in front of Mass. Ave. picks up five or six people and drives them a short distance for a fee, it looks like [the driver] is doing hackney [taxi] business," Rodriguez said. "Liveries can not do hackney, and we will enforce this...
...Frank was the "best and the brightest" of the agents, but now he's a 90s man who shows his compassion by playing the piano in bars on his off nights. Frank is a very human hero, a man who gets exhausted while running alongside the President's limo and groans about having a cold...