WASHINGTON — On the eve of the 2012 White House Correspondents' Dinner, this city's annual media-politico-Hollywood love fest, Katharine Weymouth convened the sort of Washington power dinner for which her grandmother, Katharine Graham, the pioneering publisher of The Washington Post, was famous.
His pilgrimage to Mount Vernon became an unexpected leitmotif as he sat down for a power dinner with American business leaders.
Joynt does not hold back on how Washington power dinner parties place (and practically police) comely single women a safe distance from attractive married males.
One of the highlights during the week was a "power dinner" with Mark Makepeace, Chief Executive of the Financial Times Stock Exchange Group and founder of the FTSE4Good index.
Power dinner with FTSE to promote CRBP in Indonesia 17 October 2013, Jakarta, Indonesia Following the launch of the Children's Rights and Business Principles in Jakarta earlier this year, UNICEF Indonesia organized an action week dedicated to the promotion of the Principles among the business community in this vibrant economy.
The power lunches, the power dinners — it's what the steakhouse is all about".
She was spotted sitting next to the Defence Secretary, Mr Caspar Weinberger, at a high-powered dinner last autumn - the seating-plan was arranged by her friend, Mary Jane Wick, wife of President Reagan's information chief.
The latest is a mostly counterintuitive tour of psychological and scientific thinking about child rearing that seems destined to turn up in conversations — at least in New York — not just at preschool pickup but at high-powered dinner parties and in water-cooler conversation among working parents.
The buddy story, the travel yarn, the high-powered-dinner-party piece -- the list of forms that he mastered or invented goes on and on.
The story fizzes with sight-gags and snappy lines, riffing on both family and superhero cliches – which come together beautifully in scenes such as the super-powered dinner-table squabble, which suddenly freezes when the front doorbell rings.
After reading "A Problem from Hell," Obama invited Power to dinner.
