Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other formerly familiar sights are more habitually associated with Eliot House, such as croquet on the lawn or house cocktail parties. "Tradition--if that's what a cocktail party constitutes, then those are traditions we have no problem perpetuating," Eliot Co-Master Stephen A. Mitchell...
...least, subtly set forth. The menaces lurking in the city he traverses are exaggerated. And the people who drive him over the edge are all racially or socially stereotypical, the broadly drawn "others" imagined by the uninformed middle class, quaking behind the walls of their gated communities, talking at cocktail parties about buying guns and insisting -- not entirely persuasively -- that they wouldn't be afraid to use them. To the degree that Falling Down encourages this mind-set, it is a dangerous and morally stupid movie...
...right, we've taken our licks. But this stuff is nothing more than talk show fodder and cocktail party froth. Remember, "It's the economy, stupid...
Beyond the PREJUDICED door, a monitor shows a white doctor at a cocktail party confiding, "Guess who moved in next door?" The camera shifts to a second group. "I mean, right next door. Can you imagine?" exclaims a black businessman. The camera travels again. "These people, they live like animals!" complains a wealthy white matron. An Asian restaurant owner adds, "You know what they're like -- the way they raise their children." Contends a thirtyish white man: "Sure wouldn't want my daughter . . ." ". . . son . . ." says the Asian. ". . . sister . . ." says a Hispanic woman. The matron finishes: ". . . marrying one of them...
...anyone would hurl a rock or a Molotov cocktail at another simply because of differences of color or speech or custom remains one of life's most dispiriting mysteries. But the urge to violence can be located in a sociology of causes that eastern Germany has in abundance. The main one is economic collapse. When unemployment, forced early retirement and make-work training schemes are taken together, roughly 40% of the east's labor force is out of work; nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since unification. Although Bonn is pumping more than $100 billion a year into the east...