Word: junketing
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...junket to Zaire last March, Savage found himself in the company of the 28-year-old volunteer, who was assigned to brief him on Peace Corps activities. She says that during a two-hour tour of the night spots of Kinshasa, Zaire's capital city, Savage fondled her in his chauffeur-driven car and asked for sex. "He kept saying, 'That's the way the world works,' " she told the Washington Post. The woman says she escaped Savage's advances when an embassy worker intervened. The next day U.S. Ambassador William Harrop rebuked Savage, and soon afterward the volunteer...
That, in the long run, is the ethical dilemma of the Hollywood junket. Our intrepid reporter face down in the gutter: He left his heart and GPA in San Francisco and his dinner on the floor of his hotel room...
...while the average movie junket generally carries less global import then, say, a world war, or even--surprise--a baby vomiting in Buffalo, there are several salient features of the junket experience that may redeem it for some people. For example, the booze, which is free, or the deluxe hotel room, which similarly is gratis. Or the chance to run amok in a strange city where no one knows you--and not be one penny poorer for the opportunity...
...when the call came in for the San Francisco junket, one thought in particular swayed my mind: that there was no way, no possible way, that San Francisco could be as cold as Boston...
Opening the brown envelope which contained the press kits for the two films we would be covering in the junket, I read the titles: "Shoot to Kill," and "Good Morning, Vietnam." Then I went to the hospitality suite down the hall and dug into the free and well-stocked bar. Several hours more than several cost-free beverages later, I found myself sitting in a bar wondering why the five gentlemen to my left had stripped naked and were dancing around, waving to the other patrons in the bar and passers-by who were gawking through the open door...