Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though his position papers and public pronouncements inch toward independence from the Johnson Administration, Humphrey himself vacillates, afraid that outright divorcement has perhaps even more dangers than advantages. "I do not intend to run for the office of President of the United States," he told a $500-a-plate dinner in Washington, "by turning my back on those who have stood with me." Tears filled his eyes and his voice cracked with emotion as he said that he had no intention of "repudiating the work of my party, my President and his predecessors...
...collected an assortment of Kennedy children and treated them to an alfresco picnic on Egg Island, a sand bar that was a J.F.K. favorite during his summer White House days. Came evening, and she was at Father-in-Law Joe Kennedy's house for a quiet family dinner and a private screening of The Thomas Crown Affair, the story of a swinging Boston millionaire-turned-bank-robber...
...forbidden, presents another challenge for the kosher housewife. Friday is usually a day of frenzied activity-cleaning, shopping, preparing meals in advance for the tranquility and family intimacy of Saturday. There are some personal satisfactions. At sundown, after the wife lights the candles preceding the traditional Sabbath-eve dinner (typical menu: gefilte fish, matzoh-ball soup, chicken or beef, potato kugel), the husband often chants an ancient song of praise for his wife. Drawn from Proverbs 31, it begins: "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels." Says Mrs. Baris: "I obviously...
...interested in having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl," said Sidney Poitier, after having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? "I'd much rather have romantic interludes with Negro girls." So he dreamed up a plot, handed it over to Screen Writer Robert Alan Aurthur, and stepped into the leading role opposite Abbey Lincoln in For Love...
...Ronet) are warped in Chabrolian high-style: bored and restless, willful and given to practical jokes. Chris thinks nothing of using his body to promote money from his wife or stealing from her purse, and Paul destroys a television set in a fit of rage after having terrified a dinner party with a toy mechanical mouse...