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...Hang a lamb chop in the window," was the advice legendary hostess Perle Mesta gave those who wanted to make a place for themselves in the capital. Craig Spence, a would-be power broker with a taste for Edwardian suits, took that advice to heart when he arrived in Washington in the late 1970s and hurled himself into high-intensity party-giving at his elegant town house in the fashionable Kalorama section of town...
...Drastically speed up the negotiating process. Bush would chop five years off the proposed Soviet time-table. Moscow had been talking of completing conventional-force reductions only by 1997. Instead, Bush wants to reach an agreement in six months or a year and start the withdrawals...
...then I said, 'Pave the Harvard Yard, and make it a big parking space. Chop down all the trees. And then the goddamn kids would get their cars off the streets and into the Harvard Yard and stop being a nuisance...
...erotic movies on the Playboy cable-TV channel and videocassette centerfolds. They included vintage rushes of Sondra Theodore, Miss July 1977 and a former Hefner girlfriend, interviews with Jessica Hahn, and the 1989 Playboy Video Calendar. Playboy officials fear that the culprits will edit the stolen material in video chop shops and resell it in overseas markets at a discount, forcing the company to compete against its own pirated products...
...them." Recall Lyndon Johnson's characterization of this singular capital: "A lot of people just love to feel bad in this city, everybody attacking everybody else, always telling you why you can't or shouldn't do something you ought to. The way up seems to be to chop somebody else down...