Word: horsed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The long predinner cocktail hour is vanishing; at most parties, white wine, dry sherry or a light aperitif is served?briefly ?instead of the palate-numbing Scotches and martinis of yesteryear. Preprandial hors d'oeuvres?"horrors d'oeuvres," as an English hostess once dubbed those limp, gluey concoctions?have...
Too bad Welles couldn't have graciously ceded the spotlight to deHory, instead of forcing himself, and his own legerdemain, to center stage. He keeps butting--reciting from Kipling, lumbering through fog in Ireland, gluttoning himself with oysters and steaks. Somehow this went over big in Europe, where F for...
The football game, though, is what they remember. It's like having Pier 4 hors d'oeuvres and then your main course at The Rendezvous. It's like staying up all night to write a paper and then finding out it's not due for another week. It's really...
On the Mezzanine level Sunday, tuxedoed, pleasant, up-with-people-looking servants patrolled around with trays of hors-d'oeuvres oblivious to the pilferers who reduced them to hopeless shambles of parsley and potato chips within minutes.
Generally, wise visitors will avoid celebrity shows and concentrate on the food. At Windows on the World (107th floor of the World Trade Center), that might be difficult; the food is excellent, and the view is one of the most spectacular in the world. Reservations are normally required two weeks...