Word: buffetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice-presidential candidate provided the one remaining element of preconvention suspense, Carter found time for less solemn chores. He jumped from a leisurely fish fry in Plains (see color facing page) to a busy round of highly successful fund-raising affairs. They included a $1,000-per-couple lawn buffet in a tent in Asheville, N.C.; a $250-per-plate breakfast in Milwaukee; a $100-per-person cocktail party in New York's Waldorf-Astoria. He made similar stops in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston and Chicago. The net result: Carter wiped out his remaining $400,000 primary campaign deficit...
Previews of The Devil's Disciple July 1, 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. Gala gourmet buffet and show July 4 at 7 p.m., including entertainment by the Proposition--Boston's most famous improvisational theater group--doing excerpts from their show The Boston Tea Party. Opens again July 6 and runs through July 24, with performances Monday through Friday at 8 p.m., and Saturday at 5 and 9 p.m. Preview tickets $5.50, regular tickets $6.50 and $7.95, rush seats (one half hour before curtain...
...Wurlitzer filled with country music, and maybe a little K.C. & the Sunshine Band thrown incongruously in for dancing and revisionism. The best songs in the jukebox were progressive country: Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings (and the Waylors), Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, Emmy Lou Harris, along with Jimmy Buffet in a more folk-pop direction and Merle Haggard in a more mainstream country tradition. With his Friends album, Hank Williams, Jr. joins this group...
...Prince Charles Necessary?" cover (June 27, 1969). The brooding poet Robert Lowell is given a crayoned zigzag crown of laurels by Sidney Nolan (June 2, 1967), while Boris Artzybasheff painted a blue-faced underwater Jacques Cousteau (March 28, 1960). Among the other artists in the show: Pietro Annigoni, Bernard Buffet, René Bouché and Peter Hurd...
...show. The same day she helped launch a Braniff airplane painted with a Bicentennial design by Alexander Calder. At home, she brings in Liberty's puppies for guests to cuddle in the family living room, where the Fords do their personal entertaining−usually sit-on-the-floor buffet suppers. On a glorious Indian summer day last week, she strolled along Georgetown's Wisconsin Avenue, window-shopping. A florist thrust a bouquet into her hands; a young woman impetuously gave her the book she was reading. A touched Mrs. Ford said: "I think they like...