Word: bashli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Father Joe Kennedy's big bash at a downtown restaurant followed Frankie's Gala. An exhausted Jackie Kennedy went home, but all the rest of the clan, surrounded by the Hollywood troupe and scores of Kennedy friends, crowded in for a sedate but delightful few hours of champagne, caviar, hors d'oeuvres and supper. It was 4 a.m. before Jack Kennedy slipped into...
When Jazz Impresario George Wein heard these lines, hastily composed by Poet Langston Hughes last week, he "bawled like a baby." Most of the backers of the Newport Jazz Festival bawled with him. When the biggest jazz bash in the country was closed down in the wake of drunken rioting, with 12,000 college students finally tamed by the state police, National Guard and the U.S. Marines, the backers figured to lose $150,000 in advance ticket sales, not to mention the festival's glamorous name...
...jazz (pronounced yahtz) has come to Germany in such a big way that the Germans are now recognized by many as Europe's most frenzied buffs. Last week the German jazz season was in full swing: thousands gathered in Berlin for the Amateur Jazz Festival, following a Frankfurt bash that made the U.S.'s Newport Festival seem like a Sunday musicale...
...occasion was the annual stomp-and-holler staged by SHARE (Share Happily and Reap Endlessly), a charity for retarded children run by 63 Hollywood wives. The bash was wet, gaudy and bawdy, although there were a few touches straight out of the Ottawa Hills, Ohio, High School Junior prom-such as pink and blue balloons, some personally blown up by the wives, which further confused the week-end-on-Venus decor of Hollywood's Moulin Rouge. Costume dress was optional, but most of the folks came in their work clothes-Gary Cooper in Stetson and Levi's, Barbara...
...leaden. At Easter, when his father, an art teacher, was packing up some of his own canvases for the annual Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Art in London, he suggested that Paul send in something too, and Paul chose Water Lane, Richmond. "Have a bash." his father said. "You've got to get used to disappointments...