Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...push itself into and affect your public life." By the same token, the Texan argues that he has had no trouble inviting distinguished guests such as Congressmen Joseph Wyatt and Mickey Leland (both Texas Democrats) to address the study group, "because everybody likes to stand around in Washington cocktail parties and casually preface their remarks with, "Yes, when I was up lecturing at Harvard last week...
...soon as the rumors became public, the issue of Cunningham's integrity dominated coffee table chatter and cocktail party scuttlebutt at corporate gatherings everywhere. The press lavished so much attention on speculations about Cunningham's morality that The New York Times--after running the story on its own front page--editorialized, "Never in recent memory has so much been written about so little," The question both the media and the business world seemed to want answered was not whether Cunningham was qualified, but the snickering, "was she or wasn...
Different studies have proved personal compatibility and not strict job performance to be the most important reason for most corporate promotions. The system may be rotten, but men use it regularly--on the golf courses and tennis courts, at cocktail parties, and within their circles of family and friends. When women use such tactics, their qualifications are questioned; when men use them they are just winked at. The selective application of this ethic becomes a screen to keep women from climbing corporate ladders...
Because Woody Allen, like Fellini, has an acute sense of the absurd, he can see as much humor in his own splintered isolation as he can in the clumsy attempts of outsiders to break into the cage, to crash the cocktail party inside his head. Stardust Memories is a schizoid invitation to that party. The card says: COME ONE, COME ALL. BRING YOUR OWN BOOS. And in a fine hand at the bottom you can read: TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT...
William Styron, novelist, on political conventions: "I don't like all those people in funny hats, and I don't like the cocktail parties, and I don't like people from places I never heard of. Like South Dakota...