Word: touting
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...train to Germany in Let's Sing, acted in German films and entertained Nazi soldiers in army camps. Even more disturbing to French audiences were shots of Maxim's restaurant, which was jammed with German officers and French businessmen, and of high-living socialites of le tout Paris attending cocktail parties given by Otto Abetz, Germany's wartime Ambassador to France...
...million to date-Wallace plans to spend $75,000 in Massachusetts. He has little visible organization in Boston, but then he does not have to. The antibusing movement that has sprung up in Boston in the past two years keeps phones ringing all over the city as they tout Wallace...
...scenes--the critics and collectors, as Tom Wolfe writes, "now squinting, now popping the eye sockets open, now drawing back, now moving closer--waiting, waiting, forever waiting for...it...for it to come into focus, namely the visual reward (for so much effort) which must be there, which every (tout le monde) knew to be there--waiting for something to radiate directly from the paintings...
TIME was a far better magazine before this obsession and compulsion to tout for the Israeli lobby...
...basement of Bridgeman's Restaurant, the drivers and their backers were trading tales and plotting strategy while downing tumblers of bourbon and Grain Belt beer. They also mulled over the tout sheet of Local Handicapper Duane Krause, who goes by the pen name "Timber Savage." Savage and most of the smart money favored George Attla, a lame, one-eyed Athapascan Indian from Fairbanks, Alaska. Others leaned toward Harris Dunlap, a former art teacher from Bakers Mills in New York's Adirondacks...