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...really nice," he said. "Everytime we bring somebody over, they're like 'Wow...
...doubt this production will be watched closely by the effects industry, as well as by Rich Little's agent. Greenberg is promising pretty grand results: "Someone with a trained eye might say there's something not quite human about it. But the average layman will watch it and say, 'Wow! George Burns is alive!'" Either that or "Yikes...
...Wow! Do you expect to call Mrs. Clinton...
Tell a guy from Princeton you're working for your congressional representative and you get, "Oh, cool. That must be so much fun." Introduce yourself as a White House intern, and you'll provoke an involuntary "Wow!" from your conversation partner. Even well-known non-profits and interest groups, like Common Cause or the AFL-CIO, will impress people. But say you're from the Center for Democracy and Technology (an Internet civil-liberties group) or some other small lobbying organization, and you might as well have introduced yourself at a Head of the Charles party as somebody's friend...
...where this is going. It's the Ivy League wow-effect every Harvard student has encountered, only worse. Just as not all smart gogetters go to Harvard, not all those who matter in Washington work for big-name employers...