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...lust"--are no longer the tools of the trade. This is not to say, however, that lobbyists have stopped wining and dining Congressman and their staffs. Public records indicate that Ways and Means Chairman Rostenkowski spends about as much time playing golf as the guest of lobbyists at posh resorts as he does holding hearings in Washington...
...inimical to U.S. interests. It is unclear just what Casey could have said this time, since the CIA is currently funneling $15 million in covert aid to Savimbi to help his rebellion against the Angolan regime. Last week outraged Savimbi backers chained themselves to a railing in Gray's posh offices in Georgetown and had to be forcibly removed by local police...
...utopian, Mies pursued rather luxurious ideas about appropriate modern style. It was his insistence on exquisite materials and craft that made his best work sublime rather than plain or mean. The pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world...
...luster rarely matched by any former Secretary of State since Martin Van Buren made the leap to the White House in 1837. Even without his Air Force jet, Kissinger travels with the aura of power. He alerts the embassies. Bodyguards watch over him. The maid at London's posh Claridge's covers the floor with towels because Kissinger, she says, does not like to walk barefoot on hotel carpets. Arriving in Paris, Kissinger is invited to the Elysee Palace for a chat with President Francois Mitterrand; in Peking, Deng Xiaoping suggests a talk over tea. Back in New York City...
Mikhail Gorbachev's public campaign against corruption in the Soviet Union is now touching the friends of former President Leonid Brezhnev and his family. Acquaintances of Brezhnev's daughter Galina and his son Yuri are reportedly being questioned about bribery involving the use of posh hotel rooms and of restaurants for private banquets attended by well-connected figures from the Brezhnev era. The state-controlled press, without mentioning Brezhnev by name, has criticized the cronyism fostered during his 18-year rule...