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...Sullivan's "The policeman's lot is not a happy one." Angela Lansbury borrowed a song from the musical Sweeney Todd, singing for the cops, No One Will Harm You. Those who paid $96-the price of one bulletproof vest-also got a ticket to a buffet dinner party at the Minskoff theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Bulletproof Chic | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Democratic Union in Kiel. First the politicians routinely re-elected Helmut Kohl party chairman, despite grumbles that Kohl will be no match for Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next year's elections. After that, to stir support for C.D.U. candidates in upcoming European Parliament elections, a novel buffet of dishes from other European Community nations: smoked salmon from Denmark, Netherlands herring, Italian wine and, Gott im Himmel, the French dish-or dishes-three dancers who pranced about onstage wearing only G strings and nonaligned ostrich feathers. Kohl diplomatically said nothing about the surprise entree. But some other C.D.U.ers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1979 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...soaked chocolate truffles. Anyone who serves anyone such a repast must have a very good boss or richly deserve a raise. Julia also has suggestions for such events as a birthday dinner ("roast duck and a big gooey cake"), a Sunday night supper, a chafing-dish dinner and a buffet for 19, with good ideas about the wines avec. The book goes on to breads and breakfasts, capons and caramel, sherbets and shellfish. Julia, please stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An International Bill of Fare | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

They promoted him at a gay bar in Atlanta, at a recording studio in New York City--unique places. The sidebar to this promo trip--which included a catered buffet and booze and whatever quaaludes, reds and vals you could cop from the local rockies--was a brief look at amateur female boxing champ "Cat" Davis...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Rock 'n Roll Sometimes Forgets | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...White House has never seen any thing to beat it. Where the powerful and the privileged usually dine, a buffet is laid on for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Where Casals once played, the entertain ment is a sort of tribal rite in which the guests whoop it up to a Texas honky-tonk beat. The placid evening air is pierced by a singer's plangent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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