Word: patronizing
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...serious chance of winning. He spent endless hours countering the main charge of Carter's campaign: he was a warmonger. He constantly reassured voters that he would not dismantle Social Security, end unemployment compensation. Quoting Franklin D. Roosevelt as though he were a kind of patron saint, bizarre as that seemed, Regan adopted the old Democratic pledge to create jobs and "put this country back to work...
...have been too much for most of the Chilean military to tolerate. The spectacle of three high-ranking Chilean military officers on trial in the United States for murder would have generated tremendous pressure within the Chilean Armed Forces to stage a counter-coup against Gen. Pinochet, Gen. Contreras' patron, and begin a transition to democracy...
...word, that distinctive Elsie's atmosphere has disappeared, replaced by hanging plants and hardwood polished counters and tables. Stained wood paneling (imitation) and shimmering brown and silver wallpaper cover the walls. As one patron said, "Call it disco Elsie...
...course: a John Travolta to put on his jeans for an Urban Cowboy or a Brooke Shields to take hers off for a Blue Lagoon. Sometimes the stars pick their producers and directors; in a Streisand production the only thing Barbra does not control is how much butter a patron pours on his popcorn-and she probably has firm opinions on that too. But in both television and films there are dozens of smaller roles that only the casting director can fill. For ABC's The Winds of War, one of the biggest mini-series ever made, Reuben Cannon...
There is, of course, Manhattan's 175-room Carlyle, where a regular patron's tastes-in marmalade or Matisse-are faithfully recorded and indulged on each visit. San Diego's 223-room Westgate will summon private butlers if desired. New Orleans offers the 100-room, family-run Pontchartrain Hotel, with one of the country's best Creole restaurants. Boston's pride is the 257-room Ritz-Carlton, where a houseman will lay a fire in one's suite to soften the shock of a New England winter...