Word: fun
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Washington lobbying has changed as a result. Not long ago, lobbyists were a lot like their caricature--fat, cigar-smoking men who handed out envelopes stuffed with hundred-dollar bills to compliant lawmakers. Some people who fit that description (except for the cash) still exist, and they're fun to have lunch with. But these days lobbyists are more likely to be advertising executives, public relations specialists, telemarketers, academics and, increasingly, real-life business executives...
...coke dealer?" Maybe Waters is ironizing his anger at the movie brats who have stolen his attitude but don't understand his spirit. If so, the master is giving the kids a lesson here. Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good fun...
...kids should be taught the game as soon as they're capable of swinging a sawed-off club. For his son, that was at 10 months. Tiger took a strong interest in the game, which, by all accounts, his parents managed to encourage without pushing and while keeping things fun...
...were volleyball players who were better known on campus. Woods loved it. "Anonymity was one of the best things about being at Stanford," he says. "I was sort of a lower-tier athlete." One college roommate, Yves Zinggeler, remembers that Woods "was a humorous guy who liked to have fun and go out on weekends"; he dated a couple of women, but "he wasn't a skirt chaser." He watched The Simpsons religiously and cued up videotapes of PGA tournaments. He made his bed, of course; but as a sophomore, when Tiger lived in a suite with Zinggeler and four...
...hour," says Smith, "the networks will go to a commercial or do something else. They will not think that's important and I agree. I don't think a convention is the place for entertainment that isn't relevant. Except for the finales. The finales we can have some fun with." Smith is also gleeful over locating a 1928 recording of Al Gore Sr. playing the fiddle. It will be heard (and accompanied live by violinist Mark O'Connor) on Thursday, when the younger Gore accepts the presidential nomination...