Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sitting in the bar of J.J.?s Cellar, a restaurant on East Fifty-fifth Street, hidden in a sea of pinstriped suits at cocktail hour. Significantly, Powers was not alone. He was huddling with others who shared his misery and his sense of mission. The names they whispered were foreign to midtown Manhattan. Not Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and Joe but Ruth (as a pitcher), Foxx, Williams, and Dom. The group recounted bygone Boston glories and dared to predict future victories. From such hushed intercourse, movements are born. These renegades with their neckties, bow ties, wingtips, and dedication...
...commercial theaters around the country. Critics in the U.S., Britain, France and Sweden wrote full-length studies of his films. In 1960 Bergman graced the cover of TIME, and Simon & Schuster published a book of four of his screenplays--a rare tribute to a movie playwright. The tonier cocktail parties were rife with debates on the elusive, allusive meanings of such films as The Silence and Persona. A Bergman film was like the toughest, most rewarding college course. You crammed...
...centers in what Palm Springs old-timers disparage as "down valley," where newcomers find no reason to leave their walled compounds and new shopping malls to drive into the "old town." Their lives revolve around the booming clubs. They spend their days on the fairways and their evenings at cocktail bashes, black-tie charity balls and private dinner parties...
...article of faith." His complaints about silly and selfish women, notably Fiona's vacant sister and Volkmann's troublemaking wife, also deserve to be heard. But when all this grouchiness becomes the dominant element in the novel, the sensation of having been backed into a corner at a cocktail party is vivid...
...what is the alternative to a movie kiss? In Sleeper, Woody Allen had his characters at a futuristic cocktail party pass around a shiny metal sphere that when fondled produced a narcissistic ecstasy. In Tom Jones, Tom and the ribald Mrs. Waters consume a memorable dinner that is the moral equivalent, or the immoral equivalent, of a passionate night in bed. Perhaps in screenplays of the future, kisses will be blown on the wind like pheromones. The signals of passion might be changed: an ear might be nibbled, for example, or the nape of a neck nuzzled. Actual kissing...