Word: carpeteers
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...Coming out of Harvard you have the expectation that somehow the world is just waiting for you to graduate to roll out the red carpet, and it’s very disorienting when they don’t,” she says. “The only ones that do are the consulting firms...
...conversation between the two was lively. Early on, Morris announced that the Office for the Arts had taken away a carpet in Sanders Theater for fear he might ruin it. “They struck the rug because I had red wine,” he said, pointing to a bottle on the table. “They had a choice between me and the carpet.” When he spilled his glass half-way through the talk, Morris declared, “Look!” as if proving his own prophecy...
...first state dinner, for the Indian Prime Minister in November, Gates was told that when he entered through the East Wing, a gauntlet of press would ask him what he was wearing. "Why would they ask me that?" he replied. Not wanting to be part of the red-carpet scene, he slipped in through the quiet West Wing entrance and went straight to the bar. For dinner he ate half a basket of dinner rolls, preferring them to the gourmet Indian-fusion cuisine being served to the dignitaries in the dining room...
...their spare time, China's leaders are reaching under the carpet to tackle the country's endemic corruption, epidemic pollution, emaciated health care, shredded social services, entrenched industrial overcapacity and swiftly aging population, to name a few. They have little remaining bandwidth, and no experience or desire to be the visionary and magnanimous world leaders who can look beyond China's own often desperate needs that the world wants them...
...Penelope Cruz even extended an awkward televised red-carpet interview to highlight her Haitian cause. The famously press-wary actress volunteered to stay past the commercial break to get an opportunity to speak on Haiti. "Tonight cannot just be about the movies," Cruz said. Maggie Gyllenhaal took to the stage with the sole purpose of reminding people to donate money. "In the midst of all of this, please remember how to get involved and offer your support to the people of Haiti," she said, directing people to the appropriate donation section of the NBC website...