Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are dedicated wives (generally to high-powered men who dabble equally in politics and the arts, wear dinner jackets and parkas with identical ease) and devoted mothers (generally to no more than four picture-book children with fanciful names like Chloe and Sabrina, Tared and Clive). Somehow they find time for charity work, church functions, community projects and college alumnae drives. They are enthusiastic music lovers (with a predilection for baroque quartets, German lieder and early Dixieland, an antipathy for anything atonal) and zealous art collectors (with a penchant for abstract expressionists, pre-Columbian sculpture and 18th century French...
Lately, moreover, they have dismissed the short cuts-the vast cocktail party and the buffet supper-for the older, more elegant sit-down dinner...
...after Dinner. The trend can be documented in economic statistics...
...bones about the money she spends on clothes (mostly by Courreges, Guy Laroche and Givenchy). An outdoors sort, she thinks "the ski life has it all over the Palm Beach life-much healthier." Currently between jobs (she worked for two years in interior decoration), she entertains at occasional formal dinners, invites two or three friends for lunch every day because "it's so much more relaxing than going out." Countess John Palffy likes to have twelve friends to a black-tie dinner party, then asks from 30 to 60 more "for a nightcap" afterwards. The late comers provide...
Born in Oklahoma and only a two-year resident of suburban Oak Brook, Mrs. Butler claims to be delighted with Chicago ("It's like a pregnant woman, just beginning to be recognized"). She makes frequent trips to town, adores an evening at the opera or dinner at a favorite restaurant like Maxim's ("We love it," she says, "although the one in Paris is really a bit better"). A crack shot, capable equestrienne and "dear friend of Coco Chanel's," Mrs. Butler has a passion for Paris clothes, wears long hostess gowns or pants suits for quiet...