Word: lunching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lunch on the hill tomorrow?" I inquired...
Although he is known as a self-absorbed dictator, Giuliani would be only an average blowhard in the Capitol, so I find him more charming than his press clippings. He speaks without a text, makes his own calls, never goes off the record. We stop for lunch, and he puts a $20 bill on the counter, and so do I--one of those postmodern-ethics moments when neither of us can accept the other's hospitality. He gives me half of his deep-dish pizza, having made the better choice. Sure, he's pleased with himself. But unlike...
...then along comes this assignment: Go to Sundance in Utah; see what the new kids in cinema are doing; maybe have lunch with Robert Redford...
...summer lab gets the least attention, but it's the most important thing we do," says Redford over lunch in the Sundance mess tent, the music of rushing streams riding in on drifts of alpine air. Important because this level of creative nurturing doesn't exist anywhere else and because these future directors do not seem inclined--not yet, anyway--toward the variety of film that is promoted with either a Happy Meal or the billboard image of a star urinating on a wall...
...many of us, moderation even goes against human nature. Extreme case: a rancher friend of mine in West Texas, to whom I offered a beer at lunch, declined it, remarking philosophically, "You know, Lay-yance, I never have been able to understand one beer. If you drink one, you want to drink a case or two. And we don't have time for that today...