Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prime rate the way a baseball fan watches the major league standings. The prime rate, usually defined as the lowest interest rate that banks charge their most creditworthy customers, is no longer just an arcane financial statistic. It has become a subject for TV news commentators and cocktail-party conversations...
...Consumer Price Index) rose 258% in the past 25 years, the CLI (Cost of Loving Index) soared 420% during the same period. Moonlight still comes cheap, but a dozen long-stemmed roses, $5 in the '50s, sets the sender back $60 today. A couple of drinks at a cocktail lounge will cost about $4.50, compared with $1.50. Going to the movies, once a couple of bucks, is now about...
...members of the Brooklyn Academy of Music repertory company sometimes seem to have just been introduced to one another at a cocktail party. This is their best stab at ensemble work...
University police arrested Ngo Thursday night after he allegedly hurled a Molotov cocktail at Long V. Ngo '68, a speaker at an East Asian legal forum in the Science Center, as the panelist entered a car parked on Oxford...
...potential for--and occasional use of--slap stick, What the Butler Saw becomes a fascinating Black Comedy. Joe Orton takes a grim view of the psychiatric wall-paper we all use to cover our infirmities and our sins. With a uniformly excellent cast, the play transcends its tenor of cocktail-party chatter...