Word: cocktailing
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...When cocktail-party chatter turns to investments these days, it frequently contains a new buzz word: zeros. Short for zero-coupon bonds, the term refers to certificates that pay no interest for a decade or more but then mature into whopping sums. In just 18 months since the bonds were introduced, Wall Street brokerage firms have sold more than $30 billion. Says Katherine Reed, a bond analyst for Drexel Burnham Lambert: "Zeros are really the rage...
...September should be a welcome relief after Washington's grueling pace. Feldstein usually gets up at 6:15 and drives his 1976 Volvo from the family's rented town house in Georgetown to his office in the Old Executive Office Building. He is rarely on the cocktail-party circuit. Says his wife Kathleen: "We only go to places where we can really talk to people...
...contains a couple of show-stopping numbers, sexual innuendo, a veritable pun orgy, and a kickline or two. Add a lot of champagne, most of it brought in fistfuls from the pre-performance cocktail party, and the hilarity begins to make--well, not sense, but something close...
...press conference, but he did say it was his first visit to an Ivy League College so the growing look of confusion on his face was understandable. What was he to make of the significance of eight alligator heads or of one character's being offered a Pi Eta cocktail (40 beers in 30 seconds)? The clever lyrics about the old-boy network, which brought lumpen to the throats of the bourgeoisie, left him cold...
...know the ending, and must wait uncomfortably for the violent climax. The acting is uniformly excellent, the camera work unobtrusively effective, and the cinematography by frequent Bergman collaborator Sven Nykvist superb. Sleazy glitter is shown in a drab light that seems to have been filtered through all of the cocktail lounges in Los Angeles. But it is difficult to appreciate technical virtuousity while trying to distance yourself from the film and its imminent ending. Though Fosse wants you to identify with Snider, your situation is really closer to Dorothy's: you want...