Word: valets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, it was a guileful change of tone for Sihanouk, who had spurned previous invitations from the "illegitimate" Hun Sen regime. Only recently Sihanouk had called the Prime Minister "the valet of Vietnamese imperialism." Now the prince boasted, "I am the father of all Cambodians, so Hun Sen is my child...
...news for parking-lot jockeys dreaming about taking the new Vette for a joyride is that the car comes equipped with a so-called valet key feature. When the driver switches it on before leaving his prize in an attendant's hands, half the engine's valves shut down. That turns one mean machine into a pussycat...
Miss Julie is a long one-act play revolving around a single crisis. During the festival of Midsummer Eve, when rules of social interaction are gleefully abandoned, the count's daughter Miss Julie (Patricia Goldman) flirts brazenly with her father's valet, Jean (Daniel Hurewitz), in front of Jean's fiancee, the cook Christine (Martha Lane Moore). It is not clear who is seducing whom, but Julie and Jean soon overcome their inhibitions, and when Christine falls asleep, the two find an excuse to flee to the bedroom. Immediately after, they realize that the ensuing scandal could destroy them both...
...says. "I got a true picture of the States. I hated America. I would have joined the Black Panthers if they'd asked me. I was a radical, ready to kill." Back home his mother noticed the change: "As a little boy he was impeccable. He had his valet; his closet was immaculate. But when he returned he was a mess, always leaving things on the floor. He was a different...
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...