grip-and-grin

There were no buffet tables or stump speeches or grip-and-grin photographs.

No doubt Thomas hasn't forgotten what happened after his last grip-and-grin photo op with a onetime foe.

Today, newspapers are still filled with grip-and-grin shots of talking heads or gory frames of car crashes.

A grip-and-grin photo opportunity at Downing Street would work wonders for the image of many small manufacturers, at home as well as abroad.

He beamed for hundreds of grip-and-grin photographs, and sang along - to "The Little Drummer Boy."

"And the A.B.A. is not best served if the magazine is full of association-as-usual articles and grip-and-grin photos."

Another candidate is likely to be Ashraf Ghani, the former finance mister, who is brilliant, but is hardly a grip-and-grin retail politician.

The room includes none of the trophies that men of accomplishment acquire and no grip-and-grin portraits of him with the famous and infamous people he has known.

Indeed, Mr. Sodrel was beaming Friday as he stood alongside Mr. Bush for the traditional grip-and-grin campaign photograph.

Similarly, some of the president’s aides acknowledge complaints from Democratic fund-raisers that they have not been shown much love from the president, beyond standard grip-and-grin photographs at fund-raising dinners.

Lagging behind his GOP opponent, liberal Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, Giannoulias has coveted one-on-one, grip-and-grin time with Obama for months.

Thursdays are usually grip-and-grin day at the White House, when the President invites teachers and students and basketball teams - and occasionally foreign royalty - to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

He didn't smile, seemed grim even when shaking hands with the civilians; his demeanor was all the more striking because we were at a classic grip-and-grin event, the annual Greek picnic in Lowell, Mass.

His exclusion from the Presidential debates this year and his inability to buy all the infomercial time he wanted led him to employ the techniques he had long decried: stump speeches and grip-and-grin politics.

In commercials and debates, in grip-and-grin events and television interviews, the candidates and their surrogates are branding as negative comments by their foes that in other campaigns might have been dismissed with a yawn.

Alistair Darling, Mr Brown’s chancellor of the exchequer, looked a harried man as he made what is usually a grip-and-grin sprint to the House of Commons, brandishing the budget in Gladstone’s red box.

The place was now empty of the memorabilia Mr. Cianci so cherished: the shovels he used for ground-breaking ceremonies, the grip-and-grin photographs, the self-portrait of the late actor Anthony Quinn that hung over the fireplace.

Instead of just a top honcho's usual grip-and-grin photographs with this or that President, he has an autographed picture of five Presidents together, framed with a letter from Gerald R. Ford, an honorary Primerica board member.

One of the first black troopers to rise to prominence, he had helped pioneer drug-interdiction programs along Texas highways in the nineteen-nineties, earning grip-and-grin photos with George W. Bush and other politicians, and a congressional tribute in 1996.

When Rouhani noted that it was the White House that reached out to Iran to stage a possible grip-and-grin moment between Obama and Rouhani, he added that there wasn't enough time to develop a plan for a follow-on to the discussion.

"When Reagan was president, I was 9 years old, doing cannonballs and watching 'Rambo,' " says All, 29, who prominently displays the requisite grip-and-grin photos of himself with President Bush in the office of his own L Street consulting firm.

On the walls are photographs of Mr. Norquist as a rifle-toting supporter of Angolan anti-Marxist rebels, a poster of Janis Joplin and grip-and-grin photographs of Republican politicians, including President George Bush and Representative Sonny Bono.

For years the only pictures ever to appear in it were staged "grip-and-grin" scenes from bar association dinners and stamp-size mug shots of columnists - so small that Harry Lipsig, author of the "Tort Trends" column, once grumbled that his smiling face was regularly plastered over by the address label.

Analysts say that trip will need to be much more substantive than just a friendly grip-and-grin.

And it is not the first time the Gingrich campaign has solicited donations for a grip-and-grin with the candidate.

The dog poses with its hander and the judge, kind of a canine grip-and-grin.

The biggest picture in the room is not a grip-and-grin of himself but a portrait of Woody Allen.

At some point, they want to sit and grip-and-grin and drink chai (tea) and talk about what the problem is.

I can attest to its effect: at a talk of his I attended, my companion had to spend several minutes fanning herself after their high-intensity grip-and-grin.

Those two exchanges followed a brief grip-and-grin for cameras on Friday night when Obama greeted Chavez in Spanish.

When the dour Lavrov arrived, the media scrambled inside the room for a "photo spray," the traditional, brief grip-and-grin for the cameras, before being hustled out.

Hence his insatiable desire to "grip-and-grin": I'm surprised he never tried to beat Theodore Roosevelt's White House record of 8,150 handshakes in a single day.

The announcement came as Mr. Bush faced a barrage of questions about why he would not make public "grip-and-grin" photographs of him with Mr. Abramoff.

Even had time to spare for a grip-and-grin with outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and to lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial before heading to Jordan.

It had to be a visual thing, shoulder to shoulder, plenty of grip-and-grin for the cameras, Armstrong taking a metaphoric step backward, the new guy taking a metaphoric step forward.

Notwithstanding such sarcastic (though perfectly justified) comments, this was autograph hunting at its most benign: the grip-and-grin in the flashbulb moment, the brief communion, the scrawl on the receipt of personal interaction.

The trip itself is of the grip-and-grin, photo-op variety: The NBA expands its foreign reach, China's fans receive an up-close look at basketball deities and the players finally face someone other than their own teammates in practice.

CURTAINS UP CNN likes to open its debates with a little pregame warm-up, with the candidates jogging out onto the field, er, stage, and doing a grip-and-grin with local notables.

Obama goes to a Northern Virginia community college today to talk about the importance of career training, but the president needs something much more than a grip-and-grin with retrained workers to reshape American attitudes about his handling of the economy.

In the end, Perry’s stumbles along the national trail probably won’t linger for very long—especially when he gets back to doing what he is good: The grip-and-grin of retail politics and the golfing and hunting with the power brokers and rainmakers.

On Monday, White House officials acknowledged that, yes, photographs did exist of President Bush in a classic grip-and-grin with Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist at the center of a bribery and corruption scandal in the capital.

Crist was in town Wednesday for some television time (CNN) and a grip-and-grin with parts of the old Clinton machine at a gathering at the home of former Hillary Clinton pollster and strategist Mark Penn and fundraiser Nancy Jacobson.