Word: cocktailing
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...Murray Schisgal, sends three very modern and morose souls through a slapstick, tongue-wagging, satirical inferno of cocktail-party griefs. Under Mike Nichols' brilliantly inventive direction, Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin produce constant and rib-aching hilarity...
Lately, moreover, they have dismissed the short cuts-the vast cocktail party and the buffet supper-for the older, more elegant sit-down dinner...
...Saks and Lord & Taylor, scorns "the group that thinks it's chic to whip over to Paris, sit around in hot, stuffy rooms and have 80 fittings." She is pleased with the trend to more and more formal dinners, which she prefers to "those mad mob scenes at cocktail parties," but is none too happy about the resultant need for a closetful of evening dresses that have to be originals and can only be worn once or twice. "I think it would be great to be able to rent them," she says wistfully...
...Murray Schisgal, sends three very modern and morose souls through a slapstick, tongue-wagging, satirical inferno of cocktail-party griefs. Under Mike Nichols' brilliantly inventive direction, Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin produce constant and crippling hilarity...
...pressures that he put upon them. He noted that Aide Jack Valenti, who he once said "gets up with me every morning," now does not arrive at the White House until nearly 9 a.m. He let it be known that his staffers could attend a State Department farewell cocktail party for longtime Presidential Assistant Ralph Dungan, who has been named Ambassador to Chile. They attended, and they carefully came as individuals, not as part of Johnson's escort. And they insisted, one and all, that they had no intention of leaving Lyndon Johnson...