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...film company would spend a lot of money in town--$3 million or more is the current guess. Done. Once the deal was cut, the production company rented a fiber-glass statue of a Confederate soldier to put in the town square. Fields invited 300 local dignitaries to a cocktail party, and the county manager threw a clambake for the film people...
...someone tells me they have $8,000 to spend," she says, "I tell them to take a picnic." Peggy Leary, who runs a catering business called Ruffles & Flourishes in Boston's blue-collar Charlestown area, reports that the traditional--and pricey--sit-down dinner is being replaced by a cocktail reception that features "heavy hors d'oeuvres." The prospect of a weighty canape is daunting enough, but Stephen Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion. An introvert who doesn't know anybody can feel comfortably occupied watching a chef. Each...
...dismantle the system for their own amusement. But one rarely hears a revolutionary cry these days to overthrow the Republic. There are rhythms in these matters. Nineteen years ago, the New York Review of Books published on its cover a diagram, with instructions, of how to make a Molotov cocktail--to be hurled, obviously, in the direction of the ruling class. Thirty-one years ago, the columnist Murray Kempton wrote, "It is already very hard to remember that, only a generation ago, there were a number of Americans of significant character and talent, who believed that our society...
...Such cocktail-circuit horror stories were accompanied by panicky fears that the American dream of home ownership was becoming illusory. In fact, statistics show that by scraping and borrowing, most Baby Boom families eventually managed to buy at least a modest dwelling. In 1983 nearly half of all young families owned their homes, about the same proportion as a decade earlier. Many a down payment came from parents; Rutgers University Housing Economist George Sternlieb quips that Baby Boomers have popularized a new form of G.I. financing: "G.I. as in Good In-laws...
Among the eight stragglers is Arthur Laffer, 45, the supply-side economist whose "Laffer Curve," first sketched on a cocktail napkin, helped convince President Reagan that lower taxes would produce more Government revenue through economic growth. Laffer, a big-ticket lecturer and Pepperdine University professor, is consistently the most original and provocative in his policy proposals (place a large bounty on terrorists; allow free entry of Mexicans as European-style "guest workers"). He admits to inexperience as a campaigner but maintains ebullient good humor...