Word: stateroom
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...some small-town, never-never ideal, Michael's Magic reimagines the swank of transatlantic liners. The cabins, larger than those on competing lines, are handsomely appointed, with burled-wood paneling and dressers shaped like steamer trunks. Don't bother trying to pick up that silver-plated knickknack in a stateroom niche; it's glued to the shelf...
...getting access to O'Grady than most others who have sought him since his rescue. An aide of Dan Rather's hounded the crew of the U.S.S. Kearsarge, the ship O'Grady was taken to from Bosnia, and insisted repeatedly that he be put through to O'Grady's stateroom. The aide had no luck. Jane Pauley managed to persuade O'Grady to appear on Dateline NBC, but only after an endless series of phone calls and personal notes. And as O'Grady's father William says, "we're being contacted by everyone" for book and movie deals...
...lunatic climax: so many people scurry in and out of Marilyn's house as the actress lies dying (among them Peter Lawford, Bobby himself and an ambulance team that rushes her to the hospital and then back again, under orders from the FBI) that it looks like the stateroom sequence from A Night at the Opera...
...with language about seizing the day, decipher Clinton's marginal notes and find a numbers person. So many people were crowded into this cubicle -- speechwriter David Kusnet, Stephanopoulos, the crew from the war room who had not left the compound since Sunday -- that it looked like the Marx Brothers' stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Hillary Clinton was reworking some of the jargon in the middle of the speech with economic adviser Robert Rubin. The motorcade was forming on the South Lawn...
Clinton and Reich met on an ocean liner in 1968, when they were on their way to study at Oxford University as Rhodes scholars. They grew closer after Reich, miserably seasick, opened his stateroom door to find Clinton standing there with chicken soup and crackers, determined to nurse him back to health. Ever since, the two, along with mutual friends from Oxford, have participated in an on-and-off, two-decade "conversation" about how America and its economy should be governed. "Bill has had all of my books inflicted on him," Reich says, "and has done me the honor...