junketeer

She worked as a junketeer, organizing gambling trips to Vegas, the islands, and Atlantic City.

Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

She worked as a junketeer, organizing gambling trips to Vegas, the islands, and Atlantic City.

Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

She worked as a junketeer, organizing gambling trips to Vegas, the islands, and Atlantic City.

Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

As a long-time B-list critic and junketeer, my conscience has long been inured to the petty scams of the Golden Globes voter shoving another complimentary cream puff into his craw.

House of Scams and Fog, Or How to Break Into Your Own Apartment 2004

John Henry Days begins with a brief, impressively vivid description of an airplane trip, a radically condensed version of Mr. Kirn's Up in the Air; the title of Mr. Kirn's novel even makes an appearance: Mr. Whitehead's junketeer is "always up in the air."

Air Miles and Press Junkets, Consumerism and Coincidence 2001

Now, as a junketeer, J. has abandoned the idea of socially responsible journalism (the very phrase would make him smirk); he has reduced his "obligations" to this: "meeting the word count."

Air Miles and Press Junkets, Consumerism and Coincidence 2001

John Henry Days begins with a brief, impressively vivid description of an airplane trip, a radically condensed version of Mr. Kirn's Up in the Air; the title of Mr. Kirn's novel even makes an appearance: Mr. Whitehead's junketeer is "always up in the air."

Air Miles and Press Junkets, Consumerism and Coincidence 2001

Now, as a junketeer, J. has abandoned the idea of socially responsible journalism (the very phrase would make him smirk); he has reduced his "obligations" to this: "meeting the word count."

Air Miles and Press Junkets, Consumerism and Coincidence 2001

Whitehead has written books about an elevator inspector ("The Intuitionist"), a terminally ironic P.R. junketeer ("John Henry Days") and, in 2009's "Sag Harbor," someone who seemed an awful lot like a young Colson Whitehead.

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Brussels to Birmingham: top must-see destinations for the Siptu junketeer

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