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...fortunate few who will be attending the inaugural gala will be entertained by celebrities like Drew Carey, Marie Osmond, Rick Schroeder and Meat Loaf, who will act as celebrity emcees at some of the eight official balls. Visiting students will have to scramble for tickets, since Republican dignitaries and contributors will get top priority--tickets sold for $125, though scalping will drive prices much higher...
HOWARD GIRSKY, journalist, who taught the course Gate Crashing 101. "Call and tell them you are a free-lance writer. Ask for credentials, and show up dressed for the party. Don't settle for one gala; ask for invitations to all events. And call a friend. Dates and spouses are welcome...
...president-elect swears to "faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." That's it. There's nothing about motorcades and inaugural gowns and Fortune 500 companies sponsoring gala events...
...talk-show host. His diction is that of group therapy, and his tenure has been one long television gala. He's the man from Disney. It's been a series of poses, and very convincing ones. It's entertainment. Reagan was an actor pretending to be a politician; Clinton is a politician pretending to be an actor...
...televised gala, the night before he was inaugurated in 1993, Barbra Streisand sang Evergreen, and Clinton couldn't resist mouthing the lyrics. And the cameras--as he knew they would--started drifting away from Streisand and found the President, tears streaming out of his eyes, mouthing the words, devouring the words as if they were made of chocolate. And I then knew that what we had here was the story of a stomach. The man is defined--was then, is now and has been all through the eight years--as the Great American Consumer. He'll eat anything. Hugs, scandal...