Word: grandstanding
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...asks how much. Pizza Man says 110 for the pair, 60 for a single. I laugh at their little joke, until London Fog pulls out three 20s and Pizza Man hands over a yellow ticket. "Hey Mom, did you see that? That guy paid 60 dollars for a grandstand ticket." She did see. Neither of us can believe...
...Facing a grandstand full of reporters in the shadow of the 12-story Vehicle Assemble Building, officials from the National Aeronaities and Space Administration (NASA) and veteran astronauts responded to the media's occasionally critical pelts with down-home confidents...
...house guest at Balmoral Castle in September, a pretty girl with an almost pre-Raphaelite air of sweet naturalness, sitting demurely by the River Dee, while Prince Charles fished for salmon. In October, swathed in a sporty green coat and boots, she cheered excitedly from the Ludlow racecourse grandstand as the Prince rode his Irish chaser, Allibar, to a second-place finish in a three-mile steeplechase. By the time the Prince of Wales' 32nd birthday arrived on Nov. 14, Britain was rife with rumors that Charles' engagement to the sunny blond so often at his side, Lady...
...Reporting," as Wolfe called it, was the crucial innovation. If the writer could move inside (and sometimes in with) his subject so that the two of them felt absolutely natural together, only then could the journalist begin to unearth the story. The Literary Gentleman With A Seat in the Grandstand gave way to George Plimpton playing football with the Detroit Lions. Novelists fumed. But some signed up, people like Gore Vidal, William Styron and especially Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, who began to use journalistic techniques in their writing...
Conventional political wisdom has it that an overseas crisis strengthens an incumbent, at least in the short run-the "rally-round-the-flag effect." If Carter is reelected, says Dartmouth Government Professor Larry Radway, he should "invite the Iraqis to sit in a grandstand seat at his Inaugural parade." Whether the Iraqis and the Iranians will be that cooperative remains to be seen. Foreign affairs has not been Carter's long suit, and it is possible that the gulf war has come too soon-and its consequences, once the scare passes, might prove too messy-to be of much...