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...Discreet Billing. In a less hallowed vein, several Las Vegas hotel-casinos issue their own credit cards to customers who visit several times a year. By showing his card, a holder can get a room when the hotel is ostensibly sold out (the card identifies him as a preferred customer entitled to a room the hotel holds in reserve) and then proceed to the casino to pick up chips on credit. Although prostitution used to be the quintessential cash-in-advance business, the Cottontail Ranch, a legal brothel between Las Vegas and Reno, posts signs over each of its beds...
...labor's lobbying was partially designed to strengthen John Dunlop's chances of being named Labor Secretary ("You give us Dunlop, and we'll accept Brown," the labor aides seemed to be suggesting). Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson took up the Schlesinger cause. So, in a discreet way, did Admiral Hyman Rickover, Carter's early mentor. Also backing Schlesinger were Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis and Appropriations Committee Chairman John McClellan...
...more discreet abroad, unsure what the new limits are on their quest for profit. United Fruit's decline opens new options for Central American nationalists. Expropriation is no longer heresy, regulation is almost taken for granted, and even some control seems feasible...
...once does this slightly preposterous histriography descend to boffo-ness. With a less surrealistic touch Borowczyk maintains the same tenor of classy send-up that Bunuel attained throughout most of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Dissected a bit more, the whole business might be interpreted as a restless and repressed Victorian fantasy. But let's refrain from spoiling with pretentious theories a film that makes such good fun of its own pretentious style. Call Story of Sin a paean to romanticism in reverse. And take with a grain of salt its subject matter: the exquisite fruitness...
There is no truth-in-labeling act to ensure that the press correctly describes people in public life. Politicians used to be called by riper names than they are now, but even in these more discreet days labels can hurt. Gerald Ford is conservative, yet in his confirmation hearings preferred to style himself conservative fiscally, but "moderate on domestic issues...