The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot functi...on without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The indifferent clerk he knowing what was going to happen The lobby zombies they knowing what... The whistling elevator man he knowing The winking bellboy knowing Everybody knowing! I'd be almost inclined not to do anything!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked... this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why do...n't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the ...roll-'em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit i...s being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »