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  • How is he different from Pete Domenici, Alan Simpson, Erskine Bowles, Kent Conrad, Richard Lugar, or all the other interchangeable gray-suited cogs cutting backroom deals with each other in the name of "bipartisanship"?

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • How is he different from Pete Domenici, Alan Simpson, Erskine Bowles, Kent Conrad, Richard Lugar, or all the other interchangeable gray-suited cogs cutting backroom deals with each other in the name of "bipartisanship"?

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • How is he different from Pete Domenici, Alan Simpson, Erskine Bowles, Kent Conrad, Richard Lugar, or all the other interchangeable gray-suited cogs cutting backroom deals with each other in the name of "bipartisanship"?

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • You'll need to be willing to venture beyond your usual habitat, however, and in some cases, the suggested habitat may be too pin-striped: One gray-suited patron at Washington's Hay-Adams Hotel's Lafayette Room admits that this is his second "power breakfast" meeting of the morning, and that he sometimes expenses three such breakfasts before the day really begins.

    Hank Stuever reviews WETA's 'Breakfast in Washington' Hank Stuever 2010

  • I liked adding a little scandal to these imaginary relations, since my own family tree of buttoned-up Methodists and gray-suited Rotarians offered no good scandals themselves.

    Pieces Michael Hartford 2011

  • In January, after years away, Reubens resurrected the famous gray-suited character of Pee-wee Herman.

    Pee-wee Herman takes Manhattan Melissa Bell 2010

  • How is he different from Pete Domenici, Alan Simpson, Erskine Bowles, Kent Conrad, Richard Lugar, or all the other interchangeable gray-suited cogs cutting backroom deals with each other in the name of "bipartisanship"?

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • I liked adding a little scandal to these imaginary relations, since my own family tree of buttoned-up Methodists and gray-suited Rotarians offered no good scandals themselves.

    Pieces Michael Hartford 2011

  • Unlike the gray-suited executives we see on TV, Ogilvy was a theatrical character.

    What Real 'Mad Men' Did, and Didn't Do Kenneth Roman 2010

  • The gray-suited butler entered the parlor, set a silver service on a card table, and asked, “How does madame prefer her tea?”

    The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

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