Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything to do with current events onstage was when she won an oratorical contest at Staples High School in Westport, Conn., called "The Voice of Democracy." But guess who's coming to 8.4 million U.S. homes for breakfast, electronically speaking, for the next three weeks while Today show Hostess Jane Pauley goes off to marry and honeymoon with Cartoonist Garry Trudeau? Hartley, best known for her low-key and highly successful Polaroid camera commercials with James Garner, will handle interviews and other chores as Pauley's standin. "I'm using brain cells I haven't used...
...still perky and extremely sincere, McGraw will repeatedly deliver the "social awareness" line throughout the day. Every reporter and television host is suspicious of her motives for doing unpaid yeoman service to an organization that seemingly disappeared from view after the Sixties. If interviews press her--the hostess on Channel 56 asked McGraw redoubles her sincerity and comes up with creative variations on the original explanation: "It's an awareness campaign--you can really change the quality of life in America," or "It's not about raising money. It's about taking control of our lives...
...natural home in Mexico. A habitat in Thomasville, Ga., owned by the Robert Boissieres, abounds with shrubs, trees, vines, wild flowers and grasses; it has become a refuge for a wide variety of birds, including an occasional giant pileated woodpecker. Now that she has retired the lawnmower, says Habitat Hostess Ellen Mitchell of Reston, Va., "we're not afraid of anything now. We used to worry about crabgrass and dandelions, bugs and gnats. Now I know they're just part of the system...
Aggravating the problems of the Foreign Service even further is the impact of the women's revolution. A great many diplomatic wives, after holding jobs of their own in Washington, are not ready to go back to playing the role of supportive hostess in some overseas post. Says an American officer in the Middle East: "Twenty years ago, a wife loyally followed her husband around the world. Today she argues, 'Why should I give up my $30,000-a-year job to go Live in Upper Volta?' " To be sure, the State Department and individual embassies have...
...Parisian society, each hostess had a set reception day; Misia held open house every day in the week. She threw everything away except jewels. Drawings made by Lautrec at the dinner table were cleared away with the rest of the leavings. Her motto was, "I don't respect art; Move it." Gold and Fizdale print a lengthy honor role of sources for Misia, but their task would have been easier and clearer if she had not discarded thousands of letters. Or it may be that being forced at times to speculate and use the memoirs of others has enhanced...