Word: cocktailing
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...unless he's trying to embarrass them by showing up at all their cocktail parties...
...Revolving Block Party Award goes to North House. Each week the scene of the Friday afternoon revelry shifts from the Master's residence to one of the three brick dorms. Noho's Weathered Suburban architecture and the itinerant character of the event contributes to a cocktail party atmosphere. This reporter paid a visit when the run wound up at the Master's residence. Plenty of food, not too crowded, lots of chairs to sit down on. Just follow the signs to the site of the part...
...this week's report, Witteman traveled with Iacocca to Rochester on the Chrysler executive jet, watched Iacocca make decisions in Detroit about new models, and observed him working the crowd at a cocktail party for House Democratic leaders at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. He interviewed Iacocca's two daughters as well as present and former executives at Chrysler and Ford and even joined Iacocca at home for a dinner prepared by his fiancee...
...talk of an Andropov era, a phrase that suggested a clean and welcome break with the past. His style seemed fresh and that, it was assumed, connoted a change in the content of Soviet policy. Here was a Soviet leader who would be comfortable and stimulating on the Georgetown cocktail circuit, and who would therefore be equally easy to get along with at a summit...
...with its own navel. William Safire says the phrase connotes something "of interest to tea-leaf readers of Washington goings-on but (is) strictly a yawner to the World Out There." Author Ben Wattenberg defines "inside the Beltway" as the "exponential expansion of what used to be the Georgetown cocktail party--elitism that has lost touch...