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This week Draper, a prominent Bush fund raiser, will launch the campaign for the proposition with a $4,000-a-head cocktail party at his home in a wealthy community outside San Francisco, along with rallies in San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno and Sacramento. Overseeing the effort are Joe Gaylord, longtime strategist for Newt Gingrich, and Pat Rosenstiel, a former Midwest political director for Steve Forbes. But few if any big names are expected to high-five with Draper at his campaign podiums. So far, such school-choice advocates as financier Ted Forstmann and Wal-Mart heir John Walton...
...they've never left the office. Their next-door neighbors and pals are Pam and Greg Jochims, 26 and 28. Greg runs a haberdashery; Pam runs the Main Street program. Every evening at 6, the Randolphs and Jochims meet on the sidewalk in front of their downtown homes for cocktail hour...
...about the drug's effect on humans, noticed this panacea quality back then. The drug "could be all things to all people," he recalled later, a cure for one student's speech impediment and for one's bad LSD trip, and a way for Shulgin to have fun at cocktail parties without martinis...
Glam and grim: that is the Cannes cocktail. Though flashbulbs still pop and traffic stops for stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Calista Flockhart, the festival no longer pays much notice to big-budget Hollywood films, and the feeling is mutual. Gladiator is not here, nor Mission: Impossible 2. Gilles Jacob, the Cannes program director, who will step down after the current festival, has not been to Hollywood in five years. Instead, he woos the reigning masters of Europe and Asia, as well as America's indie auteurs. Jacob wants the universe of movie people in Cannes to find artistic life...
...screen swirls with zippy images: a cocktail tumbler that mysteriously waddles on an airplane meal tray, a Tinker Bell electron that darts through our hero's thoughts, a vortex of digital effects that suck you into cyberworld, and a few Fellini moments, like the tunnel full of empty cars and the ghostly accordionist on a picturesquely creepy streetscape...