Word: hostessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collect," said Washington's Gwen Cafritz. She meant paintings, since she was a guest, not a hostess, at the Manhattan society opening of 32 landscapes and still lifes by French Artist Bernard Buffet, 36. The gallery was filled with art inexperts. "Buffet paints a variety of styles!" remarked one black tie, eying some Picassos hanging near by. But Peter Duchin's band was playing, the buffets were laden with filet mignon and champagne, and even the upper-case Buffet felt decidedly a la mode. Already 20 of his oils-which he simply dashed off-were sold...
Avedon is possessed of a lens that is a subtler, cruder instrument of distortion than any caricaturist's pencil. Washington Hostess Perle Mesta appears whiskered and wattle-throated; Dwight Eisenhower looks like his own corpse simple people getting married at City Hall look bloated, ugly, foolish; Adlai Stevenson looks tired, disillusioned, a little sly; Playwright Arthur Miller looks scrufty, torn by anxiety...
...afternoon turns cold, Neddy tires, and beyond the difficult portage of Route 424 he begins to see odd un-familiarities that are not on his mental map. The lawns of friends are weed-grown; for-sale signs appear. There is another pool party, but the hostess, who is a social inferior, snubs him. Someone offers a word of sympathy for Neddy's financial troubles, and Neddy, vaguely uneasy, cannot recall that he has any. Chilled, and more tired than seems reasonable, he doggedly swims the last leg of his trip and hurries home to his wife and four tennis...
...hostess with the mostest in Atlantic City was none other than Perle Mesta, 73, back in style after a Kennedy Administration cold shoulder. Aside from a dinner dance for a scant 700 of "my most intimate friends" at the Claridge Hotel, Perle held nightly buffets in her rented twelve-room villa in nearby Ventnor...
...quirks, such as keeping a Manhattan mansion vacant and boarded up on a $6,000,000 plot at Fifth Avenue and 61st Street. No matter. She is Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John D., childless widow of Munitions Heir Marcellus Hartley Dodge, and in doughtier days she played hostess to the world's largest one-day dog show (4,456 entries in 1939) at her 500-acre estate in Madison, N.J. Today, she mothers 40-odd pedigreed German shepherds, retrievers, bloodhounds, beagles and a poodle, and kennel costs-nothing but prime cuts will...