Word: hobnobbing
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...Detroit moved south and everything changed. Much of America thinks stock-car racing broke through about five years ago, when the Kid--Jeff Gordon, he of the Tom Cruise looks and the middle-class Indiana upbringing--started winning everything in sight and turning up on the Today show to hobnob with Katie and Matt. But consider this: by 1965, NASCAR was already the second most popular sport, by attendance, in the country. And it hadn't started its Northern offensive...
...While happy to hobnob with all sorts of leaders whose human rights records are every bit as odious as Castro's - and despite the fact that the U.S. periodically negotiates with his government on issues ranging from immigration to drug interdiction - this White House, like its seven predecessors, makes a point of publicly shunning the Cuban leader. Thus Crowley went out of his way to emphasize Thursday that Castro would not be welcome at President Clinton's gala event for world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum. Last time Clinton left the Cuban leader off his guest list, Castro upstaged...
City Lights (United Artists). It is almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
...former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The Secret Service has begun to do some advance checking on the island but hasn't yet found a suitable house. Apparently nobody who has a place large enough to suit the First Family wants to give it up and miss the chance to hobnob with the Clintons...
...Institute of Politics basically puts together intellectually stimulating programs and permits a select bunch of students to hobnob with the most outstanding group of unemployed people in the world. The U.C., on the other hand, deals with issues, however insignificant, that are focused on the Harvard campus. In addition, the council, as opposed to the other political groups, is accountable to the entire Harvard undergraduate population...