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There were no pricey hotel-cocktail tickets, no gourmet cheese spreads, no big bands and colorful balloons like those at the Park Plaza. Instead, the staffers were buying one another beers, and snacking on goldfish crackers as they shot cynical comments at the proceedings on the TV screen...

Author: By Heather R. Mcleod, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Election Day Wake For Murphy Staffers | 9/19/1990 | See Source »

...Always among the avant-garde, many grad students say Harvard's usual beginning-of-the-year cocktail parties are now abandoning the traditional for the trendy...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: At Some Trendy Schmoozes, Creme de Cassis Has Replaced The Most Venerable Sherry | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

...despite Fleming's assurances, when History grad student Elka B. Klein went to the department's beginning-of-the-year cocktail party last September, she was really nervous...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: At Some Trendy Schmoozes, Creme de Cassis Has Replaced The Most Venerable Sherry | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

After a few months of being snubbed, Nora is standing alone on her front porch on New Year's Eve in her black cocktail dress listening to the music from the neighborhood party, wondering where her life is going and whether she will ever be included in the circle of laughter. So masterly drawn is Nora that whenever her heart aches this way, so does ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life On Hemlock Street | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...Does the cocktail hour need any more womanizing bartenders like Sam Malone or grouchy waitresses like Carla Tortelli? Well, here's mud in your eye. The TV series Cheers, based on a cozy Boston bar, has inspired a chain of taverns that will be installed in airports and Marriott Hotels across the U.S. The hotel company's catering division and Paramount Pictures Television have struck a deal to open 46 bars modeled after the show's. The Cheers bars will be outfitted to remind patrons of the TV tavern, with dark paneling and Tiffany lamps. Customers will be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOSPITALITY: Buy Us a Round, Norm! | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

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