Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just hope poor Harry doesn't get too upset the next time Rudenstine holds a fundraising cocktail party in his mausoleum...
...just hope poor Harry doesn't get too upset the next time Rudenstine holds a fundraising cocktail party in his mausoleum...
Moviedom is filled with memorable fashion imagery--Vivien Leigh's Gone With the Wind green velvet, Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina cocktail sheath, Jean Seberg's T shirts in Breathless, almost anything Mike Myers wore in Austin Powers--but how often can articles of clothing be credited with having a performance-enhancing power akin to, say, a film's director? It happened, it seems, during the shooting of Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, an homage to the David Bowie '70s and the world of men in makeup. According to Toni Collette, who played a rock-star wife, all the leopard print...
...vast gleaming white sides of the ice cabin, crafty taggers continuously sully the innocent snowmen with black spray paint. Not only a last-minute resource for party melt-downs, the structure also acts as a billboard for the company's other products such as 40 pounders, Dry Ice, Cocktail Ice and the legendary Booze Luge, all of which can be delivered with the ease of a phone call...
...virtuoso of quotable quotes and absurd silliness, Ellis lives cocktail party chitchat. He's a master of persuasion and listeners become believers even though he says nothing. His language is littered with "you knows"--a question as rhetorical and self-serving as the motive behind many of his recent public appearances. In conversation, Ellis incessantly sells himself, his book and his "friends...