Word: cocktailing
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...sounds and faces seemed always the same, suspended for a brief moment, only to shift into new combinations, new designs, new moods. Scenes of high and solemn moment, as in the oath taking, swiftly changed to crowded dance floors, to prancing horses and strutting drum majorettes, to humming cocktail parties, wriggling teenagers, somber prayers, to ear-shattering brass bands endlessly playing Hail to the Chief, to laughter and cheers, to sentimental squeezes and unashamed tears...
Edward Albee's new play, Tiny Alice, is the most controversial dramatic puzzle to arrive on Broadway since The Cocktail Party. Over lunches and dinners, from Keen's English Chop House to the Forum of the Twelve Expense Accounts, the table talk of the town is Albee's darkling play about a rich and erotic woman who corrupts a pietistic and virginal man of the church (John Gielgud), seduces him into marrying her, then abandons him on their marriage night, but not before she causes him to be pistol-murdered by one of three confidants, including...
...judgment of E. Martin Browne, who directed all of Eliot's plays, Murder in the Cathedral is the one most sure of a lasting place in the repertory. But the one that 1,500,000 people (1,000,000 in the U.S.) went to see was The Cocktail Party (1950), that odd, gently versified comedy with its insistent message about sinners and the nature of saints. Three decades after The Waste Land, Eliot's central concern was still...
...Smiths on a brief visit to two Aspen taverns. On another evening, the clan joined the McNamaras at the Golden Horn. On both occasions, the jukeboxes raised the only uproar. "Who's got time for the Kennedys?" demanded one Aspenite. "I've got invitations to six cocktail parties tonight, and I can't go to any of them because I'm giving one myself...
...French aperitif wine that has up to now been unfamiliar to Americans, but it is getting a big introduction from a company that knows what Americans like to drink and how to sell it to them: Hartford's Heublein, Inc. Heublein (pronounced Hue-bline) invented the ready-made cocktail, led the trend to vodka drinking in the U.S., and was among the first to take advantage of the shift to sweeter and lighter alcoholic drinks. The company makes or distributes about 125 different products, ranging from Smirnoff Vodka to Grey-Poupon Mustard and A.I. Steak Sauce. It has just...