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Lobbyists call themselves lawyers, government-affairs specialists, public relations consultants, sometimes even lobbyists. They offer a wide array of increasingly sophisticated services, from drafting legislation to creating slick advertisements and direct-mail campaigns. But what enables the big-time influence peddlers to demand upwards of $400 an hour is their connections. "I'll tell you what we're selling," says Lobbyist Frank Mankiewicz. "The returned phone call...
...know whether or not I would have passed up the Honda if I had won--yeah, I put my name in the box like everyone else--but my conscience breathed a sigh of relief when the slick PR man crooned, "Peter Grossman, of Ithaca. New York, come on down...
...believe Power Station, the Elis will be the ones sweating tonight. Cozy little Bright Center will be cooled down to give the Crimson the slick ice it needs to skate circles around the hulking Elis...
...come turned away from a boyish faith in gadgets and toward a kind of timeless, spacy mysticism. In the late 1940s streamlining and art-deco angularity were abandoned in favor of more approximate, biomorphic forms from nature--lamps shaped like bubbles, coffee tables shaped like amoebas. Too bad. The slick Radio City elegance had been a bit hokey, but at least each object made obvious sense: hard angles, parallel lines and parabolas are precise, mathematically simple. Except for the work of a very few artists, such as Isamu Noguchi, most biomorphic furniture is like free verse, the lines undisciplined...
AMERICA REMEMBERS the 1950s fondly: the decade which featured slick hairstyles, doo-wop rock, and an incredible surfeit of guy-meets-girl romances that captured the imaginations of Americans like no other. Winthrop House's production of Grease plays on our idealization of '50s in such a way, both affectionate and mocking, that makes it the most entertaining sock-hop this weekend...