Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very edge of the theater ("They must have gotten here real early to get those seats!") could hear the soloists nuances without much trouble. For those sitting at the back of the lawn, however, a difference of a couple of hundred feet means that you're paying for cocktail party space more than music. Of course, this arrangement suited some in the audience quite well...
...potentially important AIDS treatment announced last winter may be a dud. A "cocktail" of three drugs seemed to prevent the HIV virus from reproducing in test tubes. But both the original scientists and others have discovered a subtle flaw in the research that made the effect seem more significant than it really...
...some drug novelties. Since the turn of the decade, gamma hydroxy butyrate, known as GHB, has been used illegally in the body-building community to reduce fat. Recently, however, youths have begun to abuse the drug to achieve a trancelike state. In New York City kids concoct a "Max" cocktail by dissolving GHB in water, then mixing in amphetamines. A different mix resulted in several overdoses in the Atlanta area in the past few months. Manhattan's hard-core sex community has also turned on to "Special K," or Cat Valium, an anesthetic that numbs the body...
Charles Kimbrough, who plays the painfully stiff anchorman Jim Dial on the TV sitcom Murphy Brown, makes this performance subtler and deeper and eschews the trademark grimaces of someone who has just smelled something foul. The action unfolds during a cocktail party where he meets, courts, wins and loses a woman (the incandescent Maureen Anderman) whom he knew three decades before. The youthful infatuation ended with her offering herself and his declining, not out of prudishness but from a lifelong premonition that something terrible was going to happen and from a courtly determination not to have anyone share his doom...
Most embarrassing moment AND fondest memory: I was standing in the hall in heels and a cocktail dress talking with a friend ... who is a member of a karate club. I said, "If you were going to attack me, how would you go about it?" He came towards me and I accidentally popped him in the nose. Afterwards, he said, "I'd much rather you accidentally hit me than not know how to use this stuff if you need...