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Welcome, delegates. You have been seen sauntering down Atlanta's Peachtree Street in funny hats, strolling doubleknit arm in doubleknit arm along Chicago's Michigan Avenue, wandering through Detroit's Renaissance Center freighted with hors ?oeuvre plates and plastic highball glasses, hanging on to San Francisco's cable cars...
Brustein views it differently. He claims "amateur theatrics" are "very important in developing an appetite for drama" and as "a preparation for professional theater." Dramat members counter that they don't appreciate serving as the hors d'oeuvres to Brustein's Yale Rep entree.
At a reception in the palace garden, Pepsi and hors d'oeuvres were served. Among the 500 guests the only foreign visitor of note was Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's wife Grace. After the traditional rose-syrup toasts, the newlyweds headed off for a honeymoon at Aqaba...
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...