But those who have felt Ms. Quinn's ire up close — in meetings, on telephone calls, even over lunches in restaurants — say they are often stunned by the intensity of her episodes.
Since both Nichols and May were in New York, participating in the abortive negotiations for Compass to appear here, they called on Rollins and, over lunch at the Russian Tea Room, gave him an idea of what they did.
Penrith named their stadium after pepper, called it Pepper Stadium, like the marketing team had a meeting over lunch and called the stadium after the first thing they saw.
The House Republican moderates meet each week over lunch, and call themselves the Tuesday Group.
"It started with a federal program intended to infiltrate the club," Sonny explained over lunch, "They called it Operation Black Biscuit".
They began their first collaboration, a radio play called "Inside a Kid's Head," over lunch in Manhattan.
"Guerrilla purchasing," Mr. Merriman called it during a recent conversation over lunch at his new Bamboo Bistro, in Wailuku, Maui.
Over lunch he denounced the so-called Arab Spring as "a fraud," and Mr. Obama's call for Hosni Mubarak's resignation as president of Egypt "an outrage".
Over lunch my 11yo couldn't think of the word hot dog and called it a potato cock.
In 1966, unbeknownst to Novak, Evans, over lunch at the Sans Souci, helped New York's junior senator draft a statement calling for a coalition government in Vietnam.
