Word: junketeering
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...still eat well, snag the occasional case of liquor or junket to Palm Springs, California, if your friendships are sufficiently close. This being Washington, there is a sheaf of guidelines defining this ineffable state, and the very careful can get an advisory opinion certifying the degree of closeness in case one is reported for impermissible fraternization with a known lobbyist. The House guidelines mix lawyerly analysis with primer language the most ethically challenged can understand, employing kindergarten names such as Moe Member, Larry Lobbyist and Stella Staffer to make their points. (Example: Carla Congresswoman lunches periodically with Edna Executive. Edna...
Later, in the same finely tuned and almost poetic form of free association, Morrow describes his postoperative period of convalescence at his farm in Dutchess County, New York; a reporting junket to the West Indies with his teenage son; and a cross-country automobile trip with his wife to celebrate the first anniversary of his successful surgery. Several times during his narration, Morrow writes of being invisible--of being, in various contexts, an unseen observer. Everywhere, turbulent memories surface and are recorded with the faithfulness of a man whose search for answers will not be denied. In the end, however...
...rushed frantically to get the movie into theaters for its opening this Friday. The studio spent about $12 million in the past six weeks on postproduction, including 11th-hour reshoots. Universal publicists insisted on calling these scenes "snippets," but by then defensiveness was rampant. At the film's press junket, each journalist was subject to two security checks before being allowed to enter the screening room. While the film played, edgy Universal brass stood along the walls of the theater to monitor the crowd's reactions. "Please," a studio publicist jokingly begged a reporter before the junket began, "just shoot...
During the fall, the heavyweights placed third out of collegiate crews--behind Brown and Princeton--in the Head of the Charles Regatta. The Crimson also won a race over the dreaded Elis in a Christmas break junket to Hawaii...
...summer of 1963 she went off with her sister Lee Radziwill for a European cruise, stayed twice as long as scheduled as stories of nocturnal sightings filtered back. Jack was sore. That was one of the reasons she went to Dallas in November on that . doomed political junket, a gesture of contrition for the summer sins...