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Remember the scene in "Annie Hall" where Woody Allen sneaks away from the New York literary-scene bash to watch the Knick game? His soon-to-be-ex-wife discovers him watching TV and demands to know what's so fascinating about "a bunch of pituitary cases trying to stuff a ball through a hoop...
...50th birthday? Answer: Very differently from you and me. Specifically, Gordon Peter Getty, son of the late oil magnate J. Paul, who is estimated to be worth over $2.2 billion, flew "some friends," as he put it, from San Francisco to New York last week for an advance bash (he actually passes the half-century mark next week. The highlight of the three-day fling was an evening at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, where Mezzo Soprano Mignon Dunn performed the New York City premiere of Amateur Composer Getty's The White Election. The 32-song cycle...
...Francisco, the Trocadero Transfer club's biggest party of the year will be a three-day bash based on Road Warrior, an Australian film that deals with the survivors of a nuclear attack. A cheerier event will be the Beaux Arts Ball, revived after some 50 years, to raise funds to establish a department of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern...
...Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) chatted with talk show host Jerry Williams for two hours yesterday afternoon, and attended the LeMessurier bash in the evening...
...preserve American interests." Today, Reagan is clearly seeking to free U.S. foreign policy from the inhibiting memory of Viet Nam. But while newly confident and so far unchallenged, U.S. military moves overseas are still constrained by a residue of deep national wariness. "The American public will love a good bash if U.S. interests are directly involved," says a Cabinet member from a previous Republican Administration. "But the U.S. public is not going to tolerate our being the policeman of the world...