Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bowen also comped the Lampoon during her first year at Harvard, and the two met second semester at a cocktail party. Bowen was on the staff by then, but Cohen was still comping...
Each of the houses then hosted receptions for juniors and their families. Most house masters opened up their residences for yesterday's cocktail parties...
These side-commentaries convey Fuentes' frustration with the situation around him as well as if he had been writing directly about them. His disgust for the Hollywood society is apparent, as is his confusion over why Diana submits to this artificial universe: "It all reminded me of... the gringo cocktail party, where no one deigns to concede more than two or three minutes to anyone, not the most fascinating stranger, not even one's oldest and dearest friend. Yes you're made of glass, they look right through you... All of this while balancing a drink in one hand...
...conference features speakers from business and government, panel discussions centered around specific regions of Asia, a banquet and a cocktail party. Even organizers say the banquet and cocktails are new features this year...
...Kitsopoulos, Laura Bontrager, Maureen McDermott and Caryl Paisner) and four cellos, with an eclectic, smoothly performed repertoire that ranges from John Adams' Nixon in China to Miles Davis' So What. For its first album, released in 1990 by Pro Arte, the group (with slightly different membership) posed in black cocktail dresses, an image the quartet now wants to downplay. "We were not happy with that picture," says Paisner, who founded the group in 1988. "We thought it was a little too sexy, although it succeeded in getting attention. But people were inclined to take us less seriously." The group...