Word: limos
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Laramie, Wyoming was just like any small Western town: a tight-knit community, says its resident limo driver Doc O’Conner (Brian Cass) in “The Laramie Project,” where “everyone knows everybody else’s business.” But the town was shaken to its core when a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, was found severely beaten nearby. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club production, which ran at the Agassiz Theatre this past weekend, details the reactions and thoughts of Laramie’s citizens...
...Meanwhile, in his life, Wyeth was not quite the simple yeoman of Chadds Ford. The people he painted might look as though they got around in oxcarts, but by the 1970s Wyeth was driving an ultraluxe black Stutz Bearcat limo, a car he had in common with Elvis and Frank Sinatra. He was good at giving self-aggrandizing interviews and had a gift for self-promotion that came to a head with the curious case of the Helga pictures. Those were a cache of 240 paintings, watercolors and drawings, some of them nudes, that Wyeth had made between...
...known for referring to himself - often - in the third person. The quotes are endless. A sampling: "Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo"; "This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball"; "Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat." The list goes...
...things Obama in his hometown. The Hard Rock Hotel Chicago is offering a "Barack and Roll" package, which includes a suite outfitted with red, white and blue bed linens, upon which you'll be served breakfast in bed; then you'll be ferried away in a complimentary limo to an appointment at Hyde Park Hair Salon, where President-elect Obama gets his hair cut. Next up, an appointment for a suit-fitting and personal-shopping experience at Hart Schaffner Marx, the clothier that made Obama's Inauguration suit. Ladies get "First Lady" treatment in the Hard Rock Hotel's salon...
...told his pathetic and steamy tales of the heart. Take caution dear reader: I thought a thick envelope from Harvard senior year would come with some thick biddies, but that April I found myself taking my mother to the prom again. Of course, she ended up leaving in a limo with the Quiz Bowl Team’s buzz-in champion, Eddie “Fast” Fingers. Again. That summer, I got a job as a pool cleaner, hoping to meet all the stay-at-home moms. It turns out the opening scenes of all those movies...