Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rostenkowski, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, earns nearly ten times as much as that. Laying guilt trips on colleagues until they provided $800 million for starving Africans during the sub-Saharan famine in 1985 did not ease Leland's entry into the insider's club. When he spent a night with Washington's homeless in the winter of 1987, it was criticized as a publicity stunt...
That is a point much in dispute in the British travel industry. The existence of the Reeves is an indication of how rankled some travelers are by the standards of other London hotels. The Businesswoman's Travel Club, founded two years ago to "provide a voice for women who receive second-class service when they travel," conducted a survey earlier this year that yielded a flood of complaints about life on the road. Many women are tired of ironing skirts with a trouser press or drying long hair on a space heater. Says Kirsty Maxey, 25, a marketing executive...
This aggregation landed its first gig two weeks later. "Hey," MacGowan said to a local club owner, "we're in a band that plays Irish Republican songs. Can we do a set here?" The club owner agreed, and MacGowan, Stacy and three friends were soon doing a 20-minute set of "mutilated Irish rebel songs" that was frequently interrupted, according to Stacy, "by chit- throwing British soldiers, who displayed far greater musical taste than the rest of the audience...
Whyte is noticeably quiet about the crime, dirt, awful schools and general corrosiveness that drive people out of cities in the first place. One urban expert says Whyte romanticizes a city that no longer exists -- "the city E.B. White wrote about in 1946, where you could leave the Stork Club at 2 a.m. and take the subway home." Whyte concedes that he has no plan to solve the litany of urban problems, but he denies he is a dreamer. "I am an anti-Utopian," he says. "We've got a lot of problems in New York that are not going...
Bush wants to have regular meetings with Gorbachev, as did Reagan, but scheduling that first one in this environment of high expectations is ticklish. Gorbachev and his Polish and Hungarian cohorts cannot yet be made members of the open-market club, though they have such yearnings. But Bush hopes that there may be some way to bring the Communists closer to provisional entry into the free-market system. Bush, like most modern Presidents, is captivated by confronting the problem and devising solutions. The hunch here is that in the next three or four months, Bush and Gorbachev will meet...