Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about First Family. After an hour and a half of inanities, you leave the theater feeling like you had been to what was billed as the greatest Washington dinner party of the year--catered by the finest restaurant, with the most interesting and "in" people in attendance--and the hostess' five-year-old son threw up on the Pakistani ambassador and the English wolfhound did likewise on the wife of the Secretary of Defense...
...hostess-elect worries about costs, as do millions of others: "I mean, who can afford the price of great wines these days?" The wines they do serve are chosen by Reagan. Her stylish wardrobe will remain much the same: "I tend toward simpler clothes. I like some things from Yves Saint Laurent. I like Bill Blass, Adolfo, and I think Jimmy Galanos is a master, although he's got terribly expensive. I remember the first dress I ever got from Jimmy; I paid $125 for it. Those good old days!" Her size...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 96, eldest daughter of President Teddy, wife of House Speaker Nicholas and a tart-tongued Washington hostess who delighted in the biting quip. In her upstairs sitting room she kept a pillow embroidered with the advice, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here...
With Rosalynn, she sipped tea but left the fattening pastries untouched while she plied her hostess with housekeeping questions. Rosalynn also escorted her out on the "Truman balcony" to gaze over the spacious South Lawn and led her through the public and private rooms of her new dwelling. Advised Rosalynn: "The most important thing about the White House is to enjoy it." Nancy clearly was prepared...
...keeps. Cartier Heiress and Chairman Nathalie Hocq, 29, personally arranged the intimate dinner for 879 and subsequent party for 1,500, chartering eight Mystère-Falcon 20 jets to transport jet-setters to Paris from seven foreign cities. "This party represents the antithesis of disco," proclaimed the proud hostess. "It symbolizes a return to the lifestyle of the past, to classicism and to beauty," she added, perhaps before catching a glimpse of Mile. Deneuve's date...