Using the foundation's money instead of allowing a guest to pick up the bill provided an additional buffer against possible corruption, the person said.
Instead of being a guest, Valor needed to get himself to "root," which means he would be in control of his target's computer.
Instead of a faintly sycophantic guest interview with Barack Obama, Fallon persuaded the president last April to "slow jam" the news to the Roots's R&B backing, notching up another 8m views on YouTube.
Instead, he was a guest of President Barack Obama at the White House, where the president was announcing tough new federal standards on automobile emissions that emulate California's environmental standards.
I took for granted that our dynamic had changed since I became a perpetual couch guest instead of a neighbor who could allow him some solitude on the weekends.
Likewise, instead of endless guest bedrooms, some of the lightest and best rooms on the second floor are now bathrooms.
Instead of standing Guest up to transfer him from wheelchair to bed, Tony lifts him "like a professional wrestler," first calling out, "Are you ready to fly?" and "Come to mama!" For those familiar with Guest's poetry, his memoir is most engaging as a coming-of-talent story.
Katy Perry will make her second appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend -- this time as host instead of musical guest.
"Instead of guests having a poor experience here and making up for it when they get to the hotel," Mr. Bardolf said from one of several cellphones he carries while at the airport to connect with hotel staff members and guests, "we try to be a concierge at the airport and make their lives a bit easier whether they're coming off an hour flight or a 14-hour flight".
Whether it is because brides and grooms want to maintain the sanctity and privacy of their ceremony or because they prefer to look up and see guests' smiling faces instead of a sea of phones, couples are taking the lead in directing their guests as to what's O.K. and what's not.
(Delightful footnote: The Huffington Post has already had to print a correction saying that its version of an anecdote featuring Mr. Lowe, Andy Warhol, Diana Ross and Cornelia Guest "incorrectly referred to Cornelia Guest as a socialist instead of a socialite").
