Word: rub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was Senator Al D'Amato, who is hotly pursuing Whitewater. According to the New York Times, weekly poker games in D'Amato's office once provided regular occasions for lobbyists to rub elbows with the New Yorker, who now heads the Banking Committee and the steering committee for Bob Dole's presidential campaign. While nobody admitted losing on purpose--a ploy that would have let D'Amato pocket as much as $300 a hand--the Senator's poker buddies represented clients who just happened to have business before the banking panel. D'Amato's office said the games ended...
left lipstick imprints the shape of grateful rub bery...
...Powell's nonresponse, which robs his pro-choice stance of an important real-world consequence, reveals caution rather than ignorance--and a finely honed political instinct as well. To a favorite Powell maxim, "Don't make a decision until you have to," one should probably add, "And don't rub it in unless you must...
...predecessor. He owns a trim little house (complete with worrisome mortgage), yearns for the settled life and narrates his adventures in a style that avoids the lush metaphors Chandler favored. He even has a sidekick, Mouse (Don Cheadle), a genial psychopath in a bowler hat, comically eager to rub out anyone who crosses his path, whether he deserves it or not. He's a scene stealer, but so is everyone else Easy encounters: the nervously sexyBeals, a brutal-funny fixer with ambiguous loyalties (Tom Sizemore), an epicene politician (Maury Chaykin). But Washington, like the character he plays, knows...
...rub here is that seeing the new digs makes visitors think of money, and talking about money, as we have seen, makes Crichton sore. In fact, he is tight with a buck and says so. The little software company he formed in the early '80s came about because he saw movie man-hours being squandered on tasks computers could dispatch in minutes. (One more entry for the give-us-a-break file: he won an Academy Award for technical achievement for this assistance to studio accountants.) He wonders crankily about society's fierce curiosity about how much money people make...