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...contact anyone at the complex had with the three. "Anytime you saw them, they were on their cell phones. What I found strange was that they always kept to themselves. Even if someone got in the pool, they got out." Another neighbor, Nancy Coker, 36, saw them getting into limos late at night, even though the car that neighbors said they drove was a gray Toyota Camry, early '90s vintage. "A week ago, I was coming home between 12 and 1 a.m. from a club. I saw a limo pick them up. It wasn't the first time. In this...
Closing time in downtown Boston, post-clubbing: Exiting the Roxy, I notice a black limo passing. Four small American flags flutter on the vehicle—ambassadorial style. Drunk men peer out of its darkened windows, waving 40s of malt liquor in hand and yelling, “Go America! Go America! Go America!” All the party people, standing on a sidewalk still wet from rain, reward this chant with a tipsy round of applause...
...rock change the world? The image most of the public has of rockers is that of drive-by dilettantes who throw money at a problem and then limo off to the next gig. U2 is taken more seriously because it has lasted longer than almost every other rock act on the scene--so its commitment to social causes seems, well, more committed. "Rock music can change things. I know that it changed our lives," says Bono. "Rock is really about the transcendent feeling. There's life in the form. I still think that rock music is the only music that...
...upon the day of his performance Cobain “acted as if it were an inconvenience to get out of bed,” making the calculated decision to refuse the limo ride to NBC and wearing the same torn, unwashed outfit onstage from the previous two days. Cobain’s overdose followed an argument with NBC officials over what he considered to be a compromise of his plans—the band were required to play “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the hit single they were sick of playing. Each subsequent overdose/suicide...
...World War II but to Vietnam, a war Westermann hated and opposed. The auto that has just run over the ship (and, by implication, its men) with an inked tire tread is the same model that belonged to Westermann's father-in-law; it was also a favorite limo of American politicians at the time...