Word: cocktailing
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...glimpses of Gertrude-we overhear only fragments of her remarks about Picasso, Cubism, Picasso, Picasso-we see Leo exclaiming, "Cezanne... Picasso's Blue Period... Matisse!" And Michael and Sarah are lost somewhere in their house that Le Corbusier built at Garches. We feel more like we're at a cocktail party, filling in what our hosts and hostesses are saying, than at a Saturday evening salon with the Steins, sharing and discussing their art collection...
There is considerable skepticism as to whether Chile's masses will continue to support Allende's "revolution" when their turn comes to make sacrifices. A current joke making the rounds in Santiago's cocktail circuit has a government official explaining the "new Chile" to a peasant. "If you have two houses, the state takes one and you keep the other," says the official. "I understand," replies the peasant. "If you have two cars, the same," the official continues. His listener again nods. "It is the same if you have two chickens," the official adds, but the peasant...
...fighting . . . . Can a plane and a peasant have a fair fight? Who's gonna be the ref? Who coaches the B-52? A cocktail party, a drunken American military attach: "Well, you know, we read the reports on enemy activity, about how infiltration or supplies have been observed in X village-maybe. Then we talk about it-or sometimes...
Before flying back from the Modern Language Association convention in New York, I attended a cocktail party given by my friendly assistant professor. His friends were there, many of them in search for jobs as I was, and as I listened to them, so unassuming in their intelligence, so self-depreciating in their manner that they were almost ashamed to look me straight in the eye. At one point in the random discussion, my interviewer reported that he had just lost his first choice, "the one David Reisman said he found intellectually intimidating...
...Huston says, there is something gloriously exciting about the atavistic Hollywood Ross depicts, with its cocktail party intrigues and Picassos in the bathroom. There has never been a better-written and more informative description of film-making than Picture. It is also exemplary as a piece of journalism. Ross's acerbic style speaks forcefully throughout, combining novelistic narration and selectivity with vivid portrayals of the nuances of character...