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Placing his simple breakfast (a banana and an unbuttered bagel) on an end table in his Capitol Hill office, Newt Gingrich sat down with half a dozen TIME editors and correspondents early last Wednesday morning. During the ensuing 90 minutes, Gingrich reviewed his accomplishments and setbacks during his first year as Speaker and outlined where he hoped to take his revolution in 1996. Excerpts...
WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH NEWT? WHAT ABOUT BREAKFAST WITH the future Republican nominee for President? Or drinks on a yacht with California Governor Pete Wilson and other G.O.P. Governors? All this access to powerful people is for sale, and can be yours, for a mere $250,000. Make checks payable to the Republican National Committee...
Democrats, of course, have their own history of swapping power moments for big bucks. When Lloyd Bentsen served as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee in 1987, he planned to charge lobbyists $10,000 for the privilege of having breakfast with him. And this year, the Democratic National Committee offered two meals with President Clinton and Vice President Gore for $100,000. But the latest Republican appeal is the largest ever: it seeks to raise a record $15 million at the Jan. 24 Annual Gala--the Republicans' main fund-raising dinner--which is $3 million more than the 1995 affair...
...gets lunch with Senate majority leader Bob Dole as well as Speaker Gingrich, priority seating at the gala, and four priority tickets to the convention. For $150,000, a donor becomes a vice chairman but gets only two convention tickets. The $45,000 donor is a deputy chairman, eats breakfast with Gingrich, but gets no tickets and no lunch. A $15,000 dinner-committee member is not even promised a special seat at the gala, though, like the others, he gets to meet privately with important lawmakers...
...Hirsch takes the luscious colors of 60s plastics--transparent turquoise hot pink, moody purple--and paints them over real footage of football games, a box of puppies an insouciant cat walking backwards layering that concoction with a jazzy, bluesy soundtrack makes the whole seem like the party scene in "Breakfast at Tiffany...