Word: cocktailed
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...week's attraction at the Jewel, The Purple Rose of Cairo. In it, Tom Baxter (of the Chicago Baxters), "adventurer and explorer," is discovered by a group of rich idlers in an Egyptian tomb and whisked home with them for "a madcap Manhattan weekend," all supper clubs and penthouses, cocktail shakers and white telephones. Movies like Purple Rose, delicately parodied here, proposed not just the possibility of perfect love at first sight but of permanent romantic transcendence at second glance...
...this domestic mayhem almost entirely through dialogue interspersed with bits of indirect discourse and peeks into the minds of the characters who happen to be onstage at the moment. This method is undeniably exhilarating, the equivalent of being grabbed by the elbow and shoved into an especially deracinated cocktail party. But the fun grows a bit forced over the long haul; even the most bizarre conversations cannot forever hide the fact that not much of substance is happening. Handl's people are splendidly funny because they all, with the possible exception of Castleton, are permanently set in their absurd ways...
...third and most common season for support of divestiture, of course, is that it's child. Divestiture from Hain or the USSR just hasn't caught on vel, but you can be a hit at any Cambridge cocktail party by dropping a few pithy lines about your recent exploits in arriving to force Bok and Harvard to quit South Mica...
...late 1950s, McDarrah was a strange cross between Beat writer and camera buff who once started a successful "Rent a Beatnik" enterprise, charging 5-40 for a Beatnik to appear at cocktail parties. His photographs of his Greenwich village buddies and his selection of commentaries from the time make up an eclectic collage...
Weinberger has a voracious appetite for work. Normally at his desk by 7:30 a.m., he puts in a twelve-hour day and leaves with a briefcase full of paperwork. Weinberger enjoys making appearances on the cocktail circuit, though he is a nondrinker. He also spends an occasional evening at the theater or a concert, with an Anglophile's preference for Purcell and other English composers. Indeed, such is his enthusiasm for Britain that last year he accepted an invitation from the Oxford Union to debate British Historian E.P. Thompson on the proposition that "there is no moral difference between...