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LADY DI TAKES THE PLUNGE, punned a Daily Mirror headline. DI THE DARING, exclaimed the Sun, which ran one picture of her on the front page and three more inside. The Daily Express said flatly that "a crowd of 200 gasped" as Lady Di stepped out of her limo. Even the Times of London permitted itself a slight whimsicality. When Prince Charles ascends the throne, mused Columnist Alan Hamilton, "the royal couple will be known as the King and Di." Writer Jean Rook of the Daily Express complimented Diana "for putting on a bold, beautiful front, and for turning...
...blue limosine carried Wolfe around during his latest trip to Boston, a pilgrimage to the Boston Globe book fair to promote his latest anthology, In Our Time. and the paperback version of his bestseller, The Right Stuff. The limo suits him fine, he tells a passenger, but he would rather be at home in New York City. "I've become a terrible, doting daddy," he says, the fine purr of Virginia landowner still evident in his voice. A daughter has arrived in his life since his last conversation with the passenger. "Forty days old," he says; his pride mixes with...
...been able to have her cake and Edith too. In Boston, two women drivers were added to a once all-male payroll, and in Washington, she was expertly guided through the city's busy streets by Joann Wernke, 24. In Seattle, how ever, Stapleton suggested that a local limo service was taking the wrong route by keeping it all in the family just a little too much: it hired only women. Said she: "I hope that's only transitional, because that's not the goal of feminism. The goal is to forget about it and regard everybody...
...curb like a funereal parade. As if staged by some cynical scenarist, a drunk's reflection appears in the shiny black of one of the cars. He ambles slowly, his image distorts as it sweeps over the doors, door handles, smoked windows and tail lights of one limo and forms again on the next, moving down the line until it drops off, lost in the gutter. Across from the Royale Theater, where a golden marquee has promoted Grease for seven years, the drunk stops to shuffle through a mesh trash can. He finds nothing but a wadded Times, straightens...
Arnold finally emerged and they headed to the limo, Arnold a head taller and half again as wide as Hercules, with new long hair and blue Western boots made of something like armadillo skin. Hercules decided to start by talking about the book, Arnold's Bodyshaping for Women; it was safest (don't offend the Austrian Oak!) and besides, Hercules instantly liked Arnold, recognized the glint of Teutonic madness in his eyes...