Word: cocktailing
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...inadequacy. Here in her eyes, green eyes, the film unfolds. As she steals into his bedroom, only to resist him. As a pinch-lipped minister exhorts her for her mortal sin. As her father's drunken friends break into the adulterer's home. As he ignores her, making witty cocktail talk with superficial antagonists...
...military attaché serves one basic purpose: legalized spying. Cloaked, up to a point, by his diplomatic immunity, he goes to cocktail parties, parades and factories, gets local generals plastered (unless they get him plastered first), and ranges through the countryside with notebook, camera and a blank expression...
...most scandalous case, however, involves an instructor in Greek philosophy. He is accused of copying all his published works, word for word, from casual comments made by a senior professor at cocktail parties...
Party Codes. But in practice, these laws are almost never enforced. "How can I go into somebody's home and find evidence to prove that somebody was serving drinks to a minor?" demanded a Los Angeles sheriff last week. But in supermarkets and commuter trains-and cocktail parties-most of the talk circled a more basic dilemma of a drinking society: Can people be kept away from alcohol until they are 21-and should they be, anyway...
...scene has been well prepared. Tokyo officials feared that there would not be enough hotel space for all the visitors, so they pumped $93 million in loans into the city's hotel industry. Two new hotels-the Otani, with a revolving cocktail lounge on its roof, and the Tokyo Prince -boast 1,600 rooms between them, to add to the facilities of the huge new Okura and Tokyo Hilton hotels. In addition, eight ships will anchor in Tokyo Harbor to provide floating accommodations. Other tourists will be housed at Kakone, the coolly beautiful mountain resort 58 miles west...