The brakes squeaked, and the train jerked, making any untethered china and crystal chatter like winter teeth.
It wasnt murder on the Orient Express, but maybe a minor heart attack.
We are in show business.
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The Orient Express history is storied and about as complicated as Agatha Christies titular whodunit.
Save for some wartime interruptions, the OG OEs iconic Paris-to-Istanbul journey ran from 1883 to 1977.
Eyes wide, phones raised to get a shot of the myth on wheels.
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My fellow passengers, too.
How many brands rent that kind of space in the Western subconscious?
See the blue here?
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We are all on stage, we all wear a costume, Deyrolle said.
Our guests wear a costume, and they play a part in the play.
Like the waiters, we felt the brakes before we heard them and held our cups and bottles close.
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Hold the glasses, we called to one another casually, across our cocktails and the tableside cheese tray.
Talented actors, wed learned our lines in record time.
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