Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General could give the White House an excuse for dismissing Allen permanently. Meanwhile Allen's deputy, James Nance, is Acting National Security Advisor, but Administration insiders are already speculating about a permanent successor. The leading candidate: David Abshire, chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University. A hard-line conservative, he is highly thought of by many State Department officials. In this respect, Allen's departure might produce another political dividend: it could ease the unseemly sniping between the National Security Advisor and the State Department...
...Georgetown. Of all the talent coming out of high school last year, the most was signed by Georgetown Coach John Thompson. This includes local favorite Pat Ewing from Cambridge Rindge and Latin and two other high school All-Americans. And, like Louisville, the Hoyas return all of last year's starters...
...book is dedicated to "that lady in Chicago Ronald Reagan kept talking about during the entire campaign because he said she cheated on welfare." But once underway, the author turns almost exclusively to topics like the real estate market in Georgetown, the inconveniences of the Eastern shuttle and the tribulations of a family man tending the flock on Martha's Vineyard. After a while, you're sure there's got to be something more poignant to relate than speculation about Jackie Onnasis' plans to move in next door and Bergdorf Goodman's arrival to follow. If he can't stand...
Perhaps most of the world's gossip-both macro and micro-is done for the interest and entertainment of it. At certain dinner parties in Georgetown and Beverly Hills and East Hampton (cannibals' picnics, nights of the long knives), the gossip is a combination of dispassionate vivisection and blood sport: reputations are expertly filleted and the small brown pits of egos are spit out decorously into spoons and laid at the edge of the plate...
...Taylor) roars home from an all-night frolic, and his haughty wife (Claudette Nevins) confronts him in full dominatrix regalia: breeches, riding crop and withering stare. If only the film had been subjected to some of the same discipline. The camera glides discreetly through Newport drawing rooms and Georgetown dining rooms-always the visitor on a guided tour, never the Knowledgeable Source with some dirt to dish. Jaclyn Smith is a stunner and a competent actress; as J.F.K., James Franciscus brings crinkled eyes and a Boston accent that he engages seemingly at whim. But the movie never comes to life...