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...point of the late Joe Orton's play Loot-not the only point, but a prominent one-was outrageous and exhilarating bad taste. Director Silvio Narizzano, no stranger to bad taste himself (Georgy Girl, Blue), changes Orton's cyanide cocktail into a fey demolition derby...
...decided, a man of prodigious endurance and good nature to resume his obliging cocktail-party manner after an already long evening. There he remained until well after midnight, still standing, talking to whomever could get a word in, turning his wit to whatever challenge was offered, land occasionally butting heads with a hairy Welshman named Thomas...
...Pregnancy Puff? There are practical reasons, insists K.T. Maclay, a married writer who invented the P.P. jointly with Unmarried Designer Linda Sampson. For one thing, she insists, it almost guarantees the wearer a seat on a crowded bus. For another, it is a surefire conversation piece at a cocktail party. She reports that one anxious mother bought a puff for her 17-year-old daughter to wear on a cross-country car trip, explaining that "she'll be safer if people think she's pregnant...
Next day, though, he was nervous again about the public reception that awaited him at Lincoln Center; he was too tense to attend a preliminary screening of two 1921 Chaplin films: The Idle Class and The Kid. At a cocktail party for about 50 notables at a suite in his hotel, Charlie and Oona came late, sat down, and limited their conversation pretty much...
...confronts the standard assortment of Nader paradoxes. How explain a man who earns $200,000 a year, but lives on $5,000? Who assails even his former allies if they fall short of his exacting and peevish standards? Who refuses to drive a car, cheer the Redskins, make the cocktail parties, settle in suburbia, come to dinner, or allow visitors into his boardinghouse? But McCarry never comes close to defining his subject, in part because he never understands the consuming and monastic role-as Public Citizen-that Nader has assigned himself...