Word: feted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presents Playboy's Playmate Party at 1:10 a.m. tonight. The 1977 Playmate of the Year will be crowned. Despite the appalling, bourgeois sexism of Hugh Hefner et al., the show must be better than its competition, the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. Nevertheless, if you watch the Playboy fete, remember one thing: you can't claim you're only watching because of the well-written articles...
...scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter: "Ours is a Communism with joie de vivre...
...optimism was premature. By week's end fete had turned into fiasco and joie into tristesse for the Communists. A long-awaited summit meeting of Socialist, Communist and Radical Party leaders was abruptly halted by a strident, embarrassingly public dispute over the common program-the parties' joint campaign platform for the March 1978 elections...
...business as ; usual in the oak-paneled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill. From behind the potted palms, the U.S. Navy Commanders' Trio plinked out Indiana, while congressional movers and shakers wreaked havoc on mounds of shrimp, deviled eggs and sliced beef. The occasion: a retirement fete honoring Frances Knight, 72, for 22 years absolute ruler-some said Dragon Lady-of the U.S. Passport Office. A legend of efficiency, she was also a scrappy defender against a large assortment of enemies, including liberals who opposed her militant conservatism and State Department bureaucrats who chafed at her independence...
Wimbledon in its centenary year paid loving homage to the old-strawberries and cream in the members' enclosure, curtsies toward the royal box and a nostalgic center court fete for former champions. Then, abruptly a fresh generation of tennis prodigies used Wimbledon's hallowed grounds to assert their claims on tomorrow...