Word: cocktailing
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...Pudding show is up that means good news and happy people Very happy! On opening night Last night the happiness began flowing at the cocktail parts among the fuses and sequins assembled for champagne and benedictine in the trees veritas dining room on the second floor. An early arrival whispered about the festivities to come. "I mean gala gala," while a woman discussed a reunion she just had. "He was walking on the Champs Elysees this summer and we just ran into each other. And now here...
This can mean anything from a zebra-striped bathing suit and chino walking shorts to a slinky, maroon silk one-shoulder gown and a black crepe cocktail dress. Davida Levy of Miami's Main Event even sells something called the "executive dress," which may be worn with a jacket and a reversible vest for an approximation of the three-piece look. Since maternity customers are often older, with jobs of their own and a certain amount of flexible income, they can manage triple-figure price tags with a minimum of fuss. Indeed, retail prices of maternity clothes have more...
...LONG CAMPAIGN with just three official contests--the caucuses, the convention, and the primary election--needs more benchmarks to fill in the gaps and to keep the media happy, and so the next litmus test for all to examine is O'Neill fundraiser next week. A $100-a-head cocktail reception at Quincy Market, the get-together was scheduled to bolster the ailing finances of the flagging crusade. Both Dukakis and King have more than half a million dollars at their disposal, and can get more when they need it. O'Neill has $5,000 in the bank...
...started, as many important things do in Washington, as cocktail-party chatter. At a museum reception in 1978, Representative Sidney Yates good-naturedly challenged Paul Perrot, an assistant secretary at the Smithsonian, to prove that he could produce every object listed in the records. Yates, an Illinois Democrat whose subcommittee oversees Smithsonian funding, was curious about how many items had been lost or stolen over the years...
...does everything take so long," wails Georgia, one of the four friends, near the film's end, and the audience feels the same way. Throughout, scenes malinger like the last couple to leave a cocktail party. You know what they're talking about, where they're headed, and the harder they try, the more they exhaust your interest. Penn forces the audience into active participation to keep track of characters and motivations, and consequently loses all control. Four Friends is the celluloid equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, splashing everything about the sixties--sex, drugs, rock, JFK, the moon shot...