Word: cocktailing
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...clear. "It's a little early to get actual figures," admits Mrs.Tooze, "but we know - how well we know - that it happens." And even if it does, can't a bit of good cheer against the chill blast of winter be countenanced? "The only place for a cocktail,"says Mrs. Tooze, "is after the rooster...
...Bruck's crisp, clear documentary is very simple: Stone is a kind of fanatic, a crazyman--squinting out at the world from behind thick glasses, he is dogged in his commitment to investigative reporting. In Washington, where lying is the local dialect, Stone has to be eccentric, avoiding the cocktail circuit and the large, compromised publications, working like mad to interpret volumes of rhetoric. He's a unique and admirable figure, whose contribution to the public's right to know spans 20 years. I.F. Stone was one of the few positive forces in movies this year, a hero...
...what the politicians were hearing, TIME correspondents followed a representative seven as they sought out their voters: struggling with squawking microphones in community centers, high schools and veterans' halls, stomping through the gathering snow in Vermont and Illinois, walking the black ghetto streets of Baltimore, attending a chic cocktail party in Santa Monica, strolling around a Georgia county courthouse in the warming winter...
Some lawyerly lapses defy easy classification. William Dobrovir, an associate of Ralph Nader's, recently played a subpoenaed White House tape at a cocktail party. Later, he publicly apologized. The Justice Department and the judge in the case decided against punishing him, but the D.C. bar is said to be considering censuring Dobrovir on its own. "It's my job to look into any unethical conduct whether it's formally reported or not," says Fred Grabowsky, counsel to the District of Columbia...
...Repertory Company shows, Barry was not quite up to the company he tried to keep. He lacked Coward's dry crystal tone, Porter's slyly sexy urban ennui, Fitzgerald's tender romantic imagination and Shaw's intellect. Barry's plays are a little like cocktail parties that have begun to wind down, leaving the guests more prone to hysteria than hilarity...