Word: cocktailed
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...foremost possibility was Indonesia's biggest vessel, the dilapidated, Soviet-built cruiser Irian, once referred to by wags as "Sukarno's floating cocktail lounge." Washington accepted the proposal last week. Hanoi rejected it on the ground that Indonesia, which thwarted a Communist takeover 2½ years ago, is "not neutral." Chuckled one British official: "Why don't we try to get the North Koreans to offer the Pueblo...
...Paulo Bienal, Brazilians were so incensed that they slashed, kicked and spat at them, presumably while the guards were not looking. Manhattan Collectors Burton and Emily Tremaine hung an Irwin in their art-filled living room, found that it haughtily negated everything else there "like a nun at a cocktail party." Reluctantly, they took it down...
Perhaps it is the unfamiliarity which gives the Eliot version of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party its distinct air of uneasiness. Director Ronald Fischler's entire company seems uncomfortable with its medium, too aware of being actors doing things actors ought...
...find too much to say about Warren Knowlton and Marty Ritter, as Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chamberlayne, the couple that gives and lives the cocktail party. Each seems to strike the right chord now and again, but more often they're just awkward enough to be vaguely troubling. Glenda Garrett is somewhat smoother than the others as Celia, and Harrison Drinkwater at least looks right as Peter; but no single actor is strong enough to hold things together by himself...
...hopes to do better by combining in-depth reporting with the light, anecdotal style he often uses. He has certainly been doing a lot of reporting. Whenever a major story breaks on campus, Kahn gets there quickly and takes copious notes. He pops up at press conferences, classes, and cocktail parties. He has amassed more than 500 single-spaced pages of notes from his half year of interviewing, which ends next week...