Word: banqueteer
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...same all along the Khrushchev banquet circuit, from white tie to rolled sleeves, from the White House to Manhattan, to San Francisco, Des Moines and Pittsburgh. In San Francisco, demands for tickets to the Commonwealth Club's banquet were matching Franklin Roosevelt's historic appearance in 1932. Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom was booked solid for the mayor's lunch (and a visiting convention of dentists, with a prior booking for the ballroom, was not too sure it was going to give up its rights) and again for a dinner sponsored by the Economic Club...
...Lady Macbeth was a remarkable and consistent performance. She made it clear that she did not covet the crown just for her own sake but wanted her husband to be king at any cost because she was so much in love with him. Her tricky deportment at the banquet and her exit therefrom were wonderfully handled...
...following evening, in an occasion that outshone even Macmillan's TV show, the President invited 28 of his old comrades of World War II and other friends to a stag banquet at the U.S. embassy residence in London. There was Sir Winston Churchill, still game, who had flown up from the Riviera. There were Field Marshals Montgomery and Alanbrooke, sharp critics of Ike's leadership, whom the President greeted no less warmly. In a wondrous who-sits-where session for the photographers, the President, much as he did in the old days, finally got the British generals where...
...fled from a restaurant right after the soup when a photographer surprised them at the table. Young Rockefeller's parents, once the employers of Mia in their Manhattan town house, were expected to arrive in Sogne this week in good time to help plan the nuptials, reception and banquet...
...intrigued and bewildered, the official Moscow press is neither. Critical consensus: "Who needs it?" Apparently the Russians are even less accustomed than Americans are to seeing pictures on their own merits. But what the spectators chiefly wanted was explanation. Jack Levine's brilliantly painted Welcome Home, depicting a banquet for a dissolute-looking general (which President Eisenhower objected to as "a lampoon"), left the crowd cold until a label was attached explaining it as "anti-war." Since then, it has been a favorite. Likewise, Peter Blume's surrealistic The Eternal City, in which a bust of Benito Mussolini...