Word: cigars
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...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...
...wasn't long before the son realized he was maybe a little too loose, too deep fried, for his father's taste--but he liked that. W. performed the most disgraceful stunts, the ones that would have angered the grandparents the most, the cigar chewing, the strutting, and swearing and smoking cigarettes in the dining room of the Nonantum Hotel in Kennebunkport when he was 12. He'd round up the younger brothers and say, "O.K., you little wieners, line up," and he'd shoot them in the back with his air gun, and they would all flail and pretend...
...children. As a teenager he played for pennies in the parks of Honolulu, often teaming with Sol Hoopii, who was later Bennie's chief rival as a steel guitar star. By his early 20s, and now adept in guitar, mandolin, ukulele and one-string cigar-box fiddle, Nawahi was ready for the mainland--and vaudeville...
...doesn't give a damn what you think about how he gives his money away, because that's one of the prerogatives of being worth $9 billion: you can give it away however you want. "I'm very internationally focused," Turner says as he chews on a cigar in his Atlanta CNN Center office. "I think, you know, we're all living on this little planet here, and you know, the borders of countries are just lines on a piece of paper." Sure, he admits, the U.N. gets into a tangle now and then. "Like any organization that...