Word: santas
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...toughest person in your entire career to interview and why? -Narendra Trivedi, Santa Clara, Calif.The feistiest interview I've ever had was with Ross Perot in May of 1992. He was running for the president of the United States and at that time he was leading George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton in the polls. He was very combative, very feisty but very engaging. That means it was a very demanding interview from my standpoint because I had to try to elicit information and not get involved in any type of personal exchange. It was a very interesting tight...
...stupor as they attempted to read the illegible scrawlings along the wall’s length.Every 10 minutes or so, a moment of humor lent “The Divine Reality Comedy” a flicker of fun. There was the burlesque ringmaster of Paradise, a nasty and ragged Santa Claus, and the 10-second appearance of Marx Brothers-esque “resurrection specialists.” But each highlight was quickly compromised by an equally disappointing set piece, like the three-minute sequence in which the cast was slowly stalked by two actors half-heartedly portraying giant shoes...
There is a foul, sour humor in one of Baker’s dope-fueled interviews, where he hesitates almost to the point of forgetfulness while trying to say the name of his son.Sitting between two fawning women in the back of a black convertible, cruising through a warm Santa Monica night, he is downright romantic, if not rather dejected looking. “Do you know who I am?” he asks a woman as she nuzzles him and kisses him on the cheek. When she responds in the negative, Baker replies, “How fortunate...
...just the opportunity to charge a lot for ground beef that appeals to chefs. A year before Boulud's burger, executive chef Sang Yoon, then 29, ditched his job at Michael's in Santa Monica, Calif., to take over a nearby tiny dive bar called Father's Office and cook burgers. "Fine dining is not how people wanted to engage chefs anymore," Yoon says. "It's not the most fun night to hang out." Father's Office is now one of the most crowded restaurants in L.A., with people willing to stand in order to eat Yoon's $12 burger...
...Galaxy aircraft - the U.S. Air Force's heavy lifter - crammed with dozens of armored cars, computers, jamming devices, weapons, packs of bomb-sniffing dogs, Secret Service agents, and a contingent of snipers, some of whom who were later spotted on a rooftop in Bethlehem hiding behind a fake Santa...