Word: cocktailing
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...kiss anyone you have been introduced to, but you shouldn't look as if you would like to do it more than once." See MODERN LIVING, Cocktail Kissing...
...well-dressed woman walked casually into the powder room of Caracas' Hotel Tamanaco, the favorite Venezuelan hotel for well-heeled U.S. tourists and businessmen. Minutes after she left, a thunderous explosion blew out the powder-room walls, shattered glass in the lobby, wrecked the interior of the cocktail lounge and injured five persons. Timed to coincide with the Tamanaco blast, a hail of fire from machine guns and mortars poured into an army motor pool on the other side of town. Troops returned the fire, and for two hours many of the expectant mothers in a nearby maternity hospital...
...left-of-center Republican-Democratic Union. Some are far-right opportunists who hate Betancourt for his insistent social and economic reforms. Their campaign is disjointed: occasional attacks on isolated villages in the hills, the murder of a few Caracas policemen, machine-gun forays on Caracas embassies, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a newspaper printing plant. Up to now, the bulk of the country's military has supported Betancourt in the interests of stability-and because they prefer his moderate reform to the violent upheaval a homegrown Castro would provoke. But as the tension continues, rumors of an impending coup...
...cocktail party two years ago, a pretty girl glided up to the handsomely mustachioed auto racer. "Ah. Mr. Hill?" she cooed. "I'm Graham Hill," said the driver, smiling hopefully. "Oh, I'm sorry." said the confused young thing, backing away. "I thought you were the famous Mr. Hill...
Philosophically, Marienbad raises only cocktail questions. Nor has Resnais experimented with his medium, for he takes no real risks. On the basis of Hiroshima Mon Amour, interestingly enough, he was virtually assured of wide critical attention and box-office interest. A true risk, artistic or otherwise, never really takes the form of a publicity stunt...