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...Bill Clinton should run for Senate from Hawaii. He'd get reelected over and over. He'd be running around with a cigar and a lei around his neck and a Hawaiian shirt," Greenberg said. "It just seems like such a wonderful image...
...humiliating for the former cigar-store Indian. Gore told the convention, "I stand here as my own man." He turned himself into an explosion of manic animation--pinwheeling and high-fiving across the American landscape, caring and sharing like nobody's business, the alpha male of millennial dream, his face a kaleidoscope of exuberance. And it hasn't worked. After all that profligate expenditure of self, he remains locked in a too-close-to-call race against a nice enough fellow from Texas and Yale whose mind, even in the midst of a presidential debate, seems to behave like...
Nick, who tends bar at Gallagher's, a New York City joint where ghosts linger like cigar smoke, has been pouring booze in this town for a good long while. "Let's say I'm 75," he lies. "I was born at 29th Street and First Avenue, and my first job in a bar was at the Queens Terrace. I would say I worked 30 bars. I worked up and down Second Avenue. I was the first bartender in the London Room at Idlewild [now Kennedy] Airport. I worked the Gaslight Club at 56th and Lex." Nick has ministered...
...ranked at 7,497 on Amazon.com. Larry Flynt released his own "Flynt Report," an 84-page, advertisement-free expos of the alleged sinful sex lives of Republicans. Months after the scandal's climax, the nation tuned in for Barbara Walter's interview with Monica Lewinsky. The impeachment process, the cigar stories and the blue Gap dress were fodder for endless jokes on late night television and infinite talking head discussions on the cable networks...
Washington lobbying has changed as a result. Not long ago, lobbyists were a lot like their caricature--fat, cigar-smoking men who handed out envelopes stuffed with hundred-dollar bills to compliant lawmakers. Some people who fit that description (except for the cash) still exist, and they're fun to have lunch with. But these days lobbyists are more likely to be advertising executives, public relations specialists, telemarketers, academics and, increasingly, real-life business executives...