Word: fete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fantastic parties are a Khashoggi signature. Christmas was a simple tea compared with his 50th-birthday fete in 1985, at which he entertained more than 400 guests at a three-day extravaganza. His birthday cake, a model of Louis XIV's coronation crown, was created by a chef who was flown to the Louvre to study the original. Khashoggi's parties also take place in his 30,000-sq.-ft. quarters incorporating the 46th and 47th floors of the Olympic Towers in Manhattan. Created out of 16 separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires...
...best of the new buildings, the most intriguing new products and graphics retain a streak of playfulness. Ron Curtis' outdoor table, for example -- a piece of painted redwood fastened to a teak stake -- seems perfect for grownup Cheever children: charmingly zany and casually handy, equipment for a movable fete or a midsummer night's drink. The View-Master 3-D Viewer, a color-slide viewer intended for actual children, has been around for nearly 50 years. In honor of its longevity, the company commissioned Designers D.M. Gresham and Martin Thaler to produce a new version. It is a $5 delight...
...committee's October fete met with fargreater response than planners estimated. Capacityfor the earlier dance, which culminated a week of350th celebrations, had to be expanded from 3500students to 4500 after students complained thatthey could not obtain tickets...
Tonight, Citystep is also holding its secondannual benefit ball at the Charles Hotel. Lastyear's campus-wide fete netted about $5600, Pecksays. The money goes toward transportation,lighting, sound, costumes and other theatricalexpenses...
Over the summer the 350th Celebration Committeesent invitations to the fete to all theundergraduates at their home addresses. The ballsold out of its original 3500 tickets before thesemester began...