Word: hostessing
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...Budapest was abuzz with rumors of a scandal that turned many a Communist sweet tooth sour. At lavish parties run for high government officials by the boss of Hungary's state-controlled national catering service, the pièce de résistance was a chocolate-covered airline hostess...
...asked 120 chums over for a dinner of hors d'oeuvres and turkey. Main course was the frug, to the big beat played for Their Highnesses by a disk jockey who rents himself and his $3,000 hi-fi rig for just such occasions. Party over, host and hostess hopped off with Prince Philip to Liechtenstein for a few days of skiing-but not before taking in a Paris hoite, where Princess Anne relaxed enough over a glass of red Margaux (vintage: '53) to toss kisses at one of the folk singers...
...easiest man to live with," he admits, but Lady Bird has more than managed to live for three decades in the eye of the hurricane (they celebrated their 30th anniversary in November). Now 52, she is an extraordinarily versatile woman-wife, mother, business partner, campaigner, hostess-who can never utter the classic complaint of the American wife that her husband never tells her anything. Lyndon confides in her and admires her judgment enormously...
...allow no part of Australia's mores to go unrecorded. In Down at the Dump, he describes the funeral of the town tart with Gogolian rambunctiousness. Willy-wagtails by Moonlight is an equally authoritative (and equally comic) account of a dinner party of two couples. The dim hostess, Nora, "made a point of calling her husband's employees by first names, trying to make them part of a family which she alone, perhaps, would have liked to exist." Her more earthy guest, Eileen Wheeler, had been a school chum. "She had tried to tell Nora...
...century. Mrs. de Guigne shops both here and abroad, finds European stores "more fun" but "has a ball" Christmas shopping in Macy's. Dior, Balenciaga and Saint Laurent are her best-loved designers, but her wardrobe is catholic enough to include frontier pants for gardening, simple hostess skirts for dinners with the family...