Word: bashing
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Philadelphia, where the words were debated and written, will of course put on the biggest bash. Preparations got off to a slow and shaky start, and only in the past few months has the administrative snarl been untangled. But local officials were justly proud of the Memorial Day weekend celebrations, attended by Vice President Bush. "Everything went without a hitch," says Sam Rogers, a spokesman for We the People 200, which is managing events...
...word that brings us all together here tonight," Humorist Art Buchwald informed the black-tie crowd at Washington's Departmental Auditorium last week, "and that word is fear." Perhaps, but for most of the capital's movers and shakers, the scariest thing about Katharine Graham's 70th-birthday ; bash was not the long reach of her Washington Post Co. publishing empire but the possibility of not being invited. Among the 600 or more well-wishers at the fete organized by Graham's daughter Lally Weymouth: Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, Senator Edward Kennedy, Publisher Malcolm Forbes...
...rallies, homecoming dances and senior proms. But she spent a good deal of this past school year reliving rites like these at Parkway West High in suburban St. Louis. She attended the senior picnic, the homecoming parade and the annual King of Hearts dance, a Sadie Hawkins-style bash where the girls ask out the boys. And when 550 seniors got their diplomas at graduation ceremonies last weekend, Wilson was there for all the speeches, hugs, cheers and tears...
...woman who makes wallflower movies like The Heartbreak Kid and A New Leaf, whose fine individual qualities are overlooked by the great, noisy media bash of the age. Beatty is, of course, Beatty: a man in whose career- drama the actual movies he stars in are merely incidents. In a daringly speculative new book, Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes (Doubleday; $17.95), Critic David Thomson puts it this way: Beatty's ambition now is "to see if he can be only a star -- not a star kept alight by regular work and appearance, but a star who exists according...
...bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five Derby winners, including Sir Barton. But the grandson Preston and his flamboyant wife Anita have been famed solely as champion party throwers. This year's bash howled as usual, but the door prize the next afternoon was a little dignity restored...