Word: guests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gaudio and Valli are always looking for new ways to fill their joint coffer. Valli, for example, is trying to launch an acting career. He made a guest appearance on Miami Vice last year and has a major role in an upcoming film comedy called Dirty Laundry. Whatever directions Gaudio and Valli take, they have no thought of breaking their deal. Says Gaudio: "That would be like telling your brother that he couldn't come to dinner anymore. We're family...
...Wedding Guest, for example, a turn-of-the-century young man named Griswold Norrie looks forward to his nuptials with the rich, beautiful Ione Carruthers: "He and Ione between them would be connected by blood or marriage to every family that counted in Manhattan society!" The only impediment is Griswold's determination to invite Atalanta, his paternal grandfather's widow, to the festivities. Because of her uncertain past and the general belief that she married an old man for his fortune, this woman simply cannot be received by people who matter. Griswold can have either his integrity or his bride...
...grown to a three- performance weekend exhaust-a-thon with Symphony Hall set up cabaret-style and tickets pegged up to $24.50. Rush followed what he calls a Club 47 format, an idea he worked out with Sykes. What it boils down to is not just a lot of guest talent but as much interaction as possible among the performers...
...that Guitar Wizard David Bromberg, for example, doesn't just appear, do a three- song Bromberg bubble unrelated to anything else and then vanish. Instead he may back up Rush later on slide guitar and improvise a number with the gifted white Bluesman John Hammond. This season's featured guest was the formidable black Rhythm-and-Blues Pioneer Bo Diddley, whose major weapon is a five-speed turbo electric guitar built in a startling rectangular shape...
...lively crowd of 200 people flocked to the party at Houston's glitzy Ocean Club, but an uninvited guest also turned up: fear. The affair, sponsored by a new organization called Safe Adults, kicked off the city's first social club for people who are worried about contracting AIDS. To join, prospective members must agree to submit to an AIDS test every six months. Oil Production Analyst Mary Harter, 28, plans to sign up. At Safe Adults, she said, "you'll meet the kind of people who are at least aware of AIDS and willing to do something to protect...