Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually imbuing the love of biology into his students. At first his Nick combines politeness, spite, and awkwardness, but as the bourbon bottle empties and the facades fade, Souza struggles to capture Nick's unleashing. The true emotion of his involvement in "Get the Guests" and "Hump the Hostess"--a selection of games from the evening--seems a bit too forced...
Think of Emma as the overattentive hostess at the endless round of parties that constitute an Austen novel. As she speaks her wry epigrams, she brandishes a smile that suggests wisdom gaily bestowed on lesser mortals. Though it crinkles with warmth, it is exactly one shade too pleased with itself. Emma could be one of nature's noblewomen, if only she would stop trying to stage-manage other people's lives. Graceful and witty, she is a goddess whose comic flaw is that she wants to play...
...late Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou married Dimitra, above, an Olympic Airways hostess...
...Sultan of Brunei took as his second wife a Royal Brunei Airlines hostess named Mariam, the daughter of a customs agent...
Viewers were aghast. No, not at TV hostess KATHIE LEE GIFFORD's mawkish reports of her son Cody's every hiccup and hangnail. They're used to that. Last week, however, labor activist Charles Kernaghan testified in Congress that the Wal-Mart clothing line bearing Kathie Lee's name is stitched together by children in Honduras who work for 31 cents an hour. As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when...