Bags, pouches, tubes--how do you dazzle someone at a cocktail party talking about "flexible packaging"?
Her success there was mainly the result of her clear enunciation of Tea Party talking points.
With polling showing Republicans well-positioned to pick up Illinois, and with GOP challengers strengthening in South Carolina, Nevada and California, some Republican insiders are talking about the party making a run at 60 seats (a five-seat gain), which would give the GOP at least a theoretical ability to break Democratic filibusters.
But none of those candidates within that particular party are talking to one another, so I have overlapping and conflicting experiences.
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An avid horticulturalist, he charmed Catherine Deneuve at a dinner party by talking with her for hours about a rare species of peony.
The Michigan Democratic Party is also talking about holding its own nominating contest in January.
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The Labour Leader Ed Miliband gave his party a stern talking to yesterday.
Green Party members will be talking a lot about their economic policy over the next few weeks.
In some cases, we are talking here about border line Tea Party types.
Is there, in fact, a race that you look at or a candidate that you look at that points to that refocusing of the Republican party you're talking about?
Eric Schmidt was reportedly talking up the device at a party in LA recently, saying that it would run Android exclusively -- which seems odd given that Google has been working on Chrome (a concept Chrome tablet is pictured above), but then again, we don't attend parties in LA so what do we know?
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This isn't a personal point against Ken Clarke, I am a friend of Ken's, I think he's a great guy, but when we're talking about the leadership of the party I think it's important that you have a leader who speaks for the majority of the party on a major issue such as Europe and the Euro.
If the BNP wants to be a British national party it has to stop talking about 1930s ideas.
In parts it read like a mother talking at a child's coming of age party.
At a fancy party in Venice, she found herself talking to a titled Italian in a gondola.
"The Democratic Party is the only party in the country that's talking about their concerns, and trying to do something about them, " Gephardt said.
All of the political parties, whether we're talking about the Pakistan's People's Party or the Muslim League of Narwaz Sharif, are absolutely opposed to any incursion by American soldiers from Afghanistan into Pakistan in pursuit of al-Qaida suspects.
After talking to the press, he visited some of his party offices before returning to Phnom Penh.
In the U.S., analyzing party platforms is an arcane hobby, like talking in Klingon--generally understood to be pointless, and ignored outside a tiny group of enthusiasts.
However, Mr Maginness's leader, Alastair McDonnell, later issued a statement in which he qualified his party's welcome for the breakthrough, talking about the Girdwood glass being both half full and half empty.
And all the time whilst he was talking to the UK's top boxing journalists, the party outside the arena was just getting started.
Yes, they can be distracting, but if we're talking about something that's intended to liven up a party, a chromatic cavalcade swirling around your entertainment center won't hurt.
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Alan McCombes denied being cynical by talking to the press and insisted he did so to protect the party from Mr Sheridan's "smears and lies".
He has an academic, rambling and emotional way of talking that makes him delightful to sit next to at a dinner party, particularly if you are slightly drunk, but makes him a poor communicator.
His spokesman, a loyal but rough spin-doctor, was replaced earlier this year by a smooth-talking Catalan who is not even a member of Mr Aznar's party.
We know about the young man who met the love of his life at a dinner party, ditching his plans to go to bed early and instead talking with the brilliant and charming Laura Welch late into the night.
Turkish intelligence officials have been talking to Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), on how to end their armed campaign.
Although ministers from Mr Tadic's party have been busy in Serbian parts of Kosovo in recent days, talking about developing them economically, Mr Tadic wants to halt Serbia's drift back into isolation.
And when you looked at the audience at the Tory Party conference, it was exactly the sort of people we're talking about - traditionalists - what used to be called the "blue rinse brigade".
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