Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to be that Saturday matinees offered dessert before dinner, a nifty Hollywood cartoon or three before the feature film. Daffy Duck would fume, but gracefully, through some dethpickable humiliation. Droopy dog would corral a wolf felon by employing the emotional minimalism of a Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe there'd be an early Disney cartoon for more refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody...
There used to be nothing treacherous about reading a magazine. There was nothing to come off on your clothes (except maybe too much ink), nothing to make your eyes water or take away your taste for dinner. But now, as perfume makers seek greater access to their customers, the magazine has become something of a minefield -- and a smelly minefield at that. More and more perfume manufacturers are relying on not just provocative texts and evocative images but a sample of the real thing. Turn the page, break open the "scent strip" and get a full blast of Giorgio...
...frame house in Brookline, a well-to-do Boston suburb. Euterpe gave up teaching to raise her two boys, the first of whom, Stelian, was born in 1930. Although he worked twelve-hour days, Panos came home at 6 p.m. to listen to CBS radio news and have dinner. He sat at the head of the table, a formidable presence in a three-piece suit, speaking little and leaving early enough to return to his office for several hours. The Dukakises prospered, but they are remembered by friends as close but not joyful, never relishing success as much as building...
...soak up limitless discretionary income. After seeds and dirt, there are goatskin gloves and Garden Weasels, wide- throated anvil pruners from Rolcut of England, not to mention $15,000 for a Sargent weeping hemlock tree. The yuppies quickly master the rituals and floral lore, swap compost recipes at dinner parties. Mulching has become elevator talk...
...Service limousine takes him to a back door of the Hyatt Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Jackson is staying. Reporters, alerted to the rendezvous, race through the hotel, but Dukakis evades them. Jackson's suite is a mess. As aides dispose of the remains of a chicken-and-greens dinner, Secret Service agents sweep swarming journalists from the corridor...