Word: boots
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Those who pass their interview with The Club's admissions committee receive their own "permanent slice of Cambridge": banquet rooms, masseur, squash courts, valet, ticket office, boot black, cigar stand and barber. Not to mention the games of bridge and backgammon, evenings of brandy and wine, entertainment by a capella and a play-wright's dialogue, a cozy library and the opportunity to tap into a "valuable resource for business or personal...
...similar assessment comes from a senior Bush Administration official who follows Vietnam closely. "I don't think having a society that is armed to the teeth and poor to boot is good for the region," the official says. "Our long-term interest is in the peace and stability of the Southeast Asian peninsula." For its part, the Vietnamese government sees the Soviet presence fading in the region and wants renewed American involvement as a counterweight to growing Chinese influence. Two years ago, Hanoi floated a proposal to let the U.S. military reoccupy its former bases in Cam Ranh...
...Neill. If that comparison seems overly generous -- Wilson has not yet produced a masterpiece to rank with Long Day's Journey into Night, nor does his body of work yet rival the four-decade outpouring that won O'Neill the Pulitzer four times and the Nobel Prize to boot -- the praise may merely be premature. In just over five years, since his first professionally produced play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, reached Broadway, Wilson has established himself as the richest theatrical voice to emerge in the U.S. since the post-World War II flowering of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller...
They hoped to bring home a first-place prize. They bought home two, and another Top 10 finish to boot...
...programs, Williams would enact a state hiring freeze and sweeping budget cuts, including selling most of the 61 official airplanes and closing district offices. "You give this fella a whack at that budget, and I'll pay for it all and save some to boot," he says...