Word: entertain
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...that morons have no right to power? Or is the president a tragic figure, unable to comprehend the forces that inexorably dictate his destruction, much less his own shattered personal life? And who really cares, anyway? Certainly not the audience. The point of theater, even political theater, is to entertain first and score ideological points later. As entertainment, The President ranks up there with the reading for Ec 1010. As a political work, it is impossible to judge the play because its message, drowned in feeble attempts at black humor, is indecipherable...
Another entry in the Carter social steeplechase is Alabama-born Yolande Fox, 44. She is a former Miss America (1951), the widow of a film executive who died 13 years ago and a constant companion of Cherif Guellal, the former Algerian ambassador to the U.S. Her first effort at entertaining for the Carter circle was a dinner for Andrew Young, Carter's U.N. ambassador. Yolande owns three houses in Georgetown: the 18-room digs she occupies with Guellal; a second home, now rented by LaBelle and Bert Lance, director of Carter's Office of Management and Budget...
...other members of the White House family are likely to emerge as social lions (most Carter staffers, says Vicki Bagley, "have an intense feeling for work rather than play"). But the Lances have both the wherewithal (from Atlanta banking) and the flair to become the Administration's top entertainers. So far, they have kept a down-home profile. The eleven-room house they rent from Yolande Fox is considerably smaller than their 40-room mansion in Atlanta, where they entertain elegantly in a dining room that can seat 50 people. Their Washington phone has a listed number-a rarity...
Casey added, "We feel our windows give us an opportunity to entertain and we will continue...
Murdoch is seldom seen without tie, vest and stylish Savile Row suit. The Murdochs occasionally entertain at home. More often, they like to invite a few friends (among them: Murdoch Executives Richard Sarazen and George Viles and, until now, Clay Felker) to dine at a tony restaurant like Le Madrigal. Out-of-town visitors are taken for a Kong's-eye view of Manhattan and a feast at the top of the World Trade Center, and Rupert sometimes takes Anna for a quiet lobster dinner at The Palm restaurant. "I'm a bit dull and humorless, not the sort...