Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allen is a brilliant comedian, but he is an uncomfortable one. The man also invented the unwilling cocktail party crashing moose (And the moose mingled...) and redubbed a serious Japanese spy movie into an outrageous parody of itself knows he can make people laugh, but he wants to do more. There weren't many laughs in Interiors, and those in his most recent Stardust Memories made us uncomfortable, we couldn't relate to them...
...following the Savile Row technique of not gluing the lining to the underside of the fabric. The result, an epiphany of choreographed rumple, was like cutting the buckles and taking the stuffing from a straitjacket. Citizens out for a stroll down a sunny American boulevard, or cabbing to a cocktail party, or even (gasp!) commuting to their office, looked like first-class cruise passengers who had just unpacked for a walk around the deck. The look was liberating for some; for others, it resembled the prize exhibit in a dry cleaners' museum of horrors. Recalls Fred Pressman, president...
Kahn seems determined to reduce Whitney to such a paragon of materialistic virtue. Kahn turns the two "watershed moments" in Jack's life into cocktail party epics. At Groton, the reverend Endicott Peabody delivered a sermon on "the egg who just got by." During World War II, the Nazis took him prisoner. "For once in his life, he had found himself in a situations where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic...
...Pudding show is up that means good news and happy people Very happy! On opening night Last night the happiness began flowing at the cocktail parts among the fuses and sequins assembled for champagne and benedictine in the trees veritas dining room on the second floor. An early arrival whispered about the festivities to come. "I mean gala gala," while a woman discussed a reunion she just had. "He was walking on the Champs Elysees this summer and we just ran into each other. And now here...
This can mean anything from a zebra-striped bathing suit and chino walking shorts to a slinky, maroon silk one-shoulder gown and a black crepe cocktail dress. Davida Levy of Miami's Main Event even sells something called the "executive dress," which may be worn with a jacket and a reversible vest for an approximation of the three-piece look. Since maternity customers are often older, with jobs of their own and a certain amount of flexible income, they can manage triple-figure price tags with a minimum of fuss. Indeed, retail prices of maternity clothes have more...