It is a nice point of disputation whether you did with tortoiselike slowness transambulate that lobby, so as in five hours to proceed but twenty paces […]

If anyone stood up to him, I bet he'd back down.

Riot shields, voodoo economics / It's just business, cattle prods and the I.M.F / I trust I can rely on your vote

The formal is about 95 per cent hype and hysteria, and about 5 per cent actual formal, and the pre-formal gathering of parents and kids is about as hypey and hysterical as it gets… After the pres, the night mirrors the increasing pain of high heels as they go from shiny and exciting to plain uncomfortable.