Word: bashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including Gerald and Betty Ford, to lunch with the royals at Sunnylands, his zillion-dollar spread near Palm Springs. "For every two friends you invite," Annenberg said, "you make 50 enemies." Hundreds of Southern California somebodies were upset about not being invited to Sunday night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry Como). So Ol' Blue Eyes blew up, understandably but in vain, about his exclusion from the Queen's smallish...
...sound stage on the Century City lot, but the end of the eleven-year-old, 250-episode CBS television show. Sometimes preachy and self-righteous, but always funny, the program was that rare TV treat, a situation comedy with situations and comedy. At a M*A*S*H bash to say goodbye, the show's creators and stars were feted with a black-tie dinner in West Hollywood by CBS and the series' producer, 20th Century-Fox. Among M*A*S*H alumni, only Wayne Rogers, 49 (a.k.a. Trapper John McIntyre), turned up to share a homecoming...
...highly accurate. That evening Boston Correspondent Joelle Attinger saw Connecticut Senate Candidate Toby Moffett transformed within hours from "an eerily calm" fellow telling fishing stories into a crushed politician whose voice repeatedly broke as he conceded defeat. And Houston Bureau Chief Sam Allis was attending a sumptuous bash for an overconfident Texas Governor Bill Clements, when the victory party suddenly turned into a wake. Allis hurried to opponent Mark White's headquarters, where what might have been "a political wake had become a full-blown victory party...
black lumpfish caviar, smoked trout, salmon and shrimp. Crooning in the background were the Augusta Singers, a group of black balladiers. The bash, hosted by the Governor and Atlanta's Citizens and Southern National Bank, was the high point of the annual meeting of the American Bankers Association, which had attracted to Georgia's capital some 10,000 financial executives from across...
...professionally; but when she divorces Laurence Harvey, he listens politely to her complaints, then writes in his diary how "it saddens me to see how these silly ladies muck up their lives. The moment they get their hooks into the gentleman of their choice they proceed assiduously to bash the whole thing to pulp with their tantrums and exigence ... It really isn't surprising that homosexuality is becoming as normal as blueberry...