Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Yugoslavia, which is not part of the Soviet bloc, 40% of those convicted of narcotics smuggling are foreigners. In Czechoslovakia, potentially addictive drugs are readily available: more than 90 sedatives and pain killers can be bought without a prescription. Users mix the drugs in water to produce a cocktail called pernaik (literally, gingerbread...
...Robert Wagner) to take note of their troubles by keeping a diary detailing every bit of their daily food intake. At one session with Lee last month, Filmmaker Janna Gelfand, 26, read off the venial sins that had cost her an added pound, notably hors d'oeuvres at two cocktail parties. "You should have had a big bowl of vegetable soup before leaving your house," said Lee. Gelfand objected, "I had a tight dress on, and soup puffs out my tummy." Still, she has lost ten pounds and is enthusiastic about Lee's method; "She tells me to imagine...
Just in case the Harvard Law grad does decide to toss his hat into the ring, here are a few Duke facts you can impress your friends with at cocktail parties...
...impaction and ecstatic reaching toward the light; not even the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, made as much of solar disks, sunrays and other bursts of radiance as deco America. As the Utopian form to end all others, the skyscraper manifested itself as chairbacks, bookcases, table lamps, cocktail shakers and, of course, refrigerators. That these things were not tall mattered no more than the fact that most streamlined objects did not budge. It was the image that counted...
Wright has no close associates in the House and prefers tending roses at his home in McLean, Va., to mixing on the cocktail circuit. Says his friend, Lobbyist Craig Raupe: "He's basically a shy man." Shy but, as with many Texas politicians, unabashedly ambitious. At 23 Wright was elected to the Texas state legislature; at 27 he became the youngest mayor in Texas. Ten years ago, Wright scored an upset in the race for House majority leader when, with some astute and quiet politicking, he beat the favorite by a single vote in an election few thought he should...