Word: cocktailing
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Advice runs from the obvious ("Avoid statements like 'The food looks pathetic,' " urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group instruction in the body language of handshaking and other niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive: "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins, excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which side...
...starts out larkishly enough. Thelma (Geena Davis) needs a respite from her traditionally male, that is to say, endlessly oinking, husband, and Louise (Susan Sarandon) is tired of waiting for her musician boyfriend to return from his one-night gigs in Ramada Inn cocktail lounges. A weekend at a friend's mountain cabin sounds just right...
Time was when the hotel industry mixed glamour and high finance in an intoxicating cocktail that attracted the most flamboyant entrepreneurs of the past century -- Conrad Hilton, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Cesar Ritz. But check in today at thousands of U.S. hostelries, including Hiltons, Sheratons and Marriotts, and your innkeeper will belong to a far more somber group: Citicorp, Wells Fargo Bank, Travelers insurance and others...
...does that help us? We might be able to shoot the breeze at a particularly strange cocktail party. We don't necessarily learn anything about the origins of Western civilization. We don't necessarily learn anything about traditionally marginalized cultures, either. We don't learn much of anything, period...
...story began in February while Beaty was having dinner with a trusted source in San Francisco. When the source mentioned possible illegal activities involving the B.C.C.I., Beaty immediately sensed a potential big story. "I was scribbling it all down on cocktail napkins, to the point where I had to keep asking the waiter for more napkins," Beaty recalls. "It first seemed unbelievable, but then almost all of it turned out to be true...