Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Storm. His characters' failure to achieve an artificial ideal makes the films both comedies of manners and bourgeois tragedies. Especially this one, thanks to a superb script by Lee's frequent collaborator James Schamus. When Janey joins Elena in her kitchen to help with the dishes, the hostess whispers a steely, "Don't touch them!" It is Elena's amusingly fierce marking of her turf; it is also a socially acceptable way for her to bark at her husband's mistress and uncork her hatred of her life...
...witnesses, he approached the cafe that morning by an unusual route, coming from the other side of the street, though his home and the cafe were on the same side. "He walked past the entrance, circled back around and then went in," says Stephanie Vanover, the News Cafe's hostess. "It's almost as though he knew someone was following...
...Fairfax, Va. Burke's 72-year partnership with the admiral, which ended in his death last year, carried her from port to port and, after her husband's appointment as Navy Chief in 1955, to the stately Admiral's House--where she earned a reputation as a gracious hostess and mentor. In her mind, however, she remained, as her epitaph gently insists, "a sailor's wife...
...teenagers as well. The Clinton package was a significant step in the direction of the competing plans that had passed both the House and the Senate the previous week. And yet even as Republicans tried to sound magnanimous, hints of resentment kept creeping in. With the air of a hostess who has suddenly chanced upon a badly dressed party crasher, Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison sniffed, "I don't think it's quite fair for the President to come in with changes that are not in either the House or the Senate bill...
...recognizing trends and capitalizing on them. There's nothing extraordinary about young people forging into new territory, economic or otherwise--it happens in every generation. The presumption that people under 30 nowadays spend their time vacillating between doldrums and self-absorption while playing video games and munching on Hostess cakes and Ding Dongs is preposterous. CHRISTIAN M. COGAN Oakland, Calif...