Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take that dream down a couple of notches, and you have the desired effect of A Cheever Evening, a series of sketches fashioned from Cheever stories by A.R. Gurney, now at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. It begins with cocktail chatter set to such nostalgic tunes as You'll Never Know and Moonglow, then flares into the peculiarly middle-class ugliness of verbal violence, rancor and self-pity. By the end, audiences should be thinking that the window through which they have seen the sins of the junior executive class is a mirror into their own messy hearts...
With guests clad in suits and jazz music piping in the background, the Weld gathering in the Georgian Ballroom of the Park Plaza Hotel on Boston Common seemed more like a cocktail party than a post-primary celebration...
...This great myth of my application has been enjoyed over the cocktail circuit over the past years," says Malin, who is originally from Ireland. "I did apply, just past the deadline...
Local people call their country "the Burundi cocktail." Its volatile ethnic mixture seems ready to explode at any time. Rwanda's next-door neighbor to the south is virtually a mirror image of that devastated country, threatened by the same passionate hatreds. As in Rwanda, Burundi's dense population is divided between two tribes, 85% Hutu and 15% Tutsi. As in Rwanda, Belgian colonialization hoisted the status of the Tutsi, who after independence slowly lost power to the majority Hutu. And as in Rwanda, the potential for ethnic violence has risen to the surface in the political vacuum left...
...Maine salmon. The 500 fatter cats in the group, who gave at least $10,000 apiece, got the bonus of an invitation to the White House for a reception. But the really big givers, those who wrote checks for between $50,000 and $100,000, gained admission to cozy cocktail parties where Clinton stopped to make small talk before his speech. Last week's presidential-encounter sessions, called An American Celebration, raised an estimated $3.5 million for the Democratic National Committee's (D.N.C.) political activities...