Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drapeau flips the burgers and brings them, still dripping with grease, to the counter. Smith lays out buns and cheese, puts on lettuce and mayonnaise, and skewers the burgers with a cocktail toothpick...
...trial, the private doings of public figures preoccupy the supposedly serious mainstream press. Decades after Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper and their ilk went the way of the dodo, their patented elixir of career hype, marital comings and goings, feuds, fortunes and celebrity pratfalls has become the journalistic cocktail of choice. In the great public circus of American life, gossip is back in the center ring...
...Cocktail Hour Horrors--Women faculty in Harvard's science departments say they often feel like an embattled minority. Jill Bonner, a former Bunting Institute fellow, recalls one encounter with Harvard's predominantly male science departments: "They were invited over to the Bunting Institute for cocktails, and the Harvard male faculty just stood there, hardly speaking a word to the Bunting fellows, each a distinguished scholar in her own right...They're very happy slapping each other on the backs at local clubs, but put them with women and they shut up like clams...
After police raided the gang's headquarters, seizing weapons and arresting four 5th Streeters, the nightmare began. A Molotov cocktail cracked Rodriguez's bedroom window; gang members marauded nightly through the * neighborhood; a suspect's father and his cronies camped out on Rodriguez's doorstep, screaming death threats. Squad cars always seemed to arrive after the tormentors had left. Rodriguez moved his children to the bedroom floor and pushed furniture against the windows. To protect his living room, he parked the family truck in the front yard and took up sentry duty by the front door...
Love Letters (1989). Sly and genial chronicler of Wasp foibles in The Dining Room and The Cocktail Hour, A.R. Gurney went for gut emotion in this story of a half-century relationship told solely in letters. Weekly changes of cast (Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Swoosie Kurtz, Richard Thomas) demonstrate, despite individual triumphs, that the play's the thing...