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High above the clouds, at 35,000 ft., Adnan Khashoggi's DC-8 is cruising noiselessly toward his estate in Marbella, Spain. His guests, sipping 1961 Chateau Margaux from crystal goblets with triangular silver bases, lounge on the jet's cream-colored chamois-and-silk banquettes. His masseur, his valet, his barber and his chiropractor -- they accompany him everywhere -- are relaxing as well because "A.K.," as he is known to his employees, is fast asleep on the $200,000 Russian sable spread covering his 10-ft.-wide bed in one of the plane's three bedrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...brand new valet to handle the parkin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 350 Years of Christmas | 12/19/1986 | See Source »

Near the end of the show, a valet (Luke Fleckenstein) who initially incarcerated the threesome, reappears to set free our unhappy roommates. But the coward, the baby-killer and the lesbian have become inured to one another; they cannot bring themselves to walk out the door...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Professional Existentialism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...epileptic patient . . . a black-haired youth with greenish skin . . . That shape am I, I felt, potentially." This was the image of monstrosity that is only a chromosome away. Henry added another kind of apparition. In The Turn of the Screw he presented a governess and a ghostly valet who vie for the soul of a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...lucky University of Southern California students who, unable to find campus housing, have been temporarily stashed in the fashionable Promenade Towers apartment complex three miles away. Housed two to a room in furnished apartments for $315 a month per student, the undergrads enjoy valet parking, a 24-hour switchboard, a health club, swimming pool, dry cleaner and market. "Just what we needed," exults U.S.C. Housing Director William Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Posh Digs At Southern Cal | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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