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Judith Martin used to spend much of her time on "what we called the garbage run," flitting from White House dinners to Embassy Row cocktail parties as a society reporter for the Washington Post. (Her most memorable distinction was being officially banned from Tricia Nixon's wedding.) While acting as a features reporter and a drama critic, she asked her editor one day in 1978 if she could try a column on etiquette; she got a very skeptical go-ahead. "Editors all thought etiquette was dead," says Martin. "Even the word was a joke. I thought I was just...
...They asked to bring in investors. We said fine, provided they are not P.L.O. They complained about censorship: they had a long list of books they wanted to publish. We said to go ahead, so long as they are not about how to make a bomb or a Molotov cocktail...
Lopata, whose primary field of study is the evolution of women's occupations, said that even traditionally low-status jobs-like cocktail waitressing-deserve more recognition. "In at least one dictionary of job occupations, women child care workers are defined with equal complexity as people who clean horse manure from stables," she added...
...true," murmurs Bob from the next bar stool. Chariots of Fire follows Stars Fell on Alabama. Bob tells a regional joke: "It is not true that possums are born dead by the side of the road." He insists that Terry fill out an application to the clan on a cocktail napkin. A Northern visitor is worried that he means the Klan. But no, this invitation is to join the Clan Maxwell Society. "We meet four times a year, wear kilts, promote Scottish culture." Another clan member, Kenn, a fourth-generation American with a Pavarotti girth and an approximate voice, whose...
...home champ is Leta Powers, whose nails are polished, striped with silver and pierced with little gold circles and charms. Leta works as a Goddess, which means she is a cocktail waitress at Caesars Palace, a hotel and casino organized around a spurious Greco-Roman theme. Locally, the Goddesses are dubbed coneheads, after the shape of the false hairpiece that is part of the costume. Unchanged since the hotel opened in 1966, the uniform, with its uncomfortable corset top and cutie-pie short pleated skirt, is as archaic as the clothes in a Currier & Ives print. The Goddesses, carrying...