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Applicants arrive the night before the interview for a cocktail party that Kinsley describes as "absolutely nightmarish." Applicants and interviewers are expected to mingle. Rice says he finds the parties a good chance to get to know the applicant's strong points, but a little book at the OGCP with comments from people who've gone the route is full of descriptions in a slightly different tone. The applicants try hard to appear manly by clearly not trying to impress the committee members, and the committee members try to draw applicants out. One disappointed applicant called the result "the most...
...film Diary (1974) is the result of a visit to the United States by of the Zagreb school of animation. In less than fifteen seconds, blobs expand into cocktail parties and a pudgy businessman is isolated; he sprouts into the air, his legs become the World Trade Towers with New York at his feet, his cigar turns into innumerable smokestacks, and neon signs spring from his vest: WORK! PROSPERITY! BIG BUSINESS...
Ford smiled and waved at the crowd as he entered the St. Francis at 11:25 a.m. At a jammed preluncheon cocktail reception for Ford, invited guests were startled by the apparent lack of security precautions. They flashed their tickets but underwent no check against guest lists, no opening of purses or X-raying of briefcases. "There's more security on an airliner than there was for the President at that moment," recalled John Chase, a Transamerica Corp. vice president. A perspiring Ford pushed through the milling guests...
...chancy. Then they considered slipping a pill or capsule filled with a hallucinogen into the victim's regular medicine bottles-but there was no telling when the pill would be taken. Finally, the three debated dropping a drug into the victim's drink at a cocktail party, but since Hunt knew that Anderson is a teetotaler, the proposal fell by the wayside. After the meeting broke up, Hunt decided the plan would not work...
...Poitier's colleagues in the underground is an incompetent Indian dentist who is described as "deeply committed." Comments Caine with a resigned sneer: "A deeply committed Indian dentist? That sounds like all the people I hate at cocktail parties...