Word: hostessing
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...being pressed by an unending blizzard of decrees. The junta's latest is an order to bars, cabarets and nightclubs to install lighting bright enough to discourage any hanky-panky between male and female customers. In Seoul, at the dance halls that still remain open, the fee per hostess per evening has been cut from $5.30 to $2. Said one male customer: "How can any government fix the degree of my appreciation of female charm...
Music & Hunting. Such attention to detail marks all the Kennedys' efforts as host and hostess. Jackie plays an active part in picking suitable gifts for White House guests. One recent visitor, Ferik Ibrahim Abboud, President of the Sudan, got a specially made Winchester hunting rifle, delightedly replied: "I come from a country where there are 13 million people and 100 million wild animals." While the President impresses visitors with searching questions about their countries, Jackie carefully plans the menus to suit their tastes, often escorts the guests on a tour of the White House. The Kennedys have the Marine...
...concentrates on women, Boroff again paints a gloomy picture. He relates "the hideous portrait of the hungry female': around thirty, with a Ph.D. or close to it, and no husband. She throws parties to which she invites young men in the hope they will come alone... The hapless hostess...almost invariably 'ends up on the floor quite tight, snuggled up to one of these young...
Filming the ballroom scene at Tregaron, he barked his guttural directions from the camera boom. "Stop talkink!" he screamed at the milling mob, which included Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop"') Jackson and Washington Hostess Gwen Cafritz. When a waiter looked at the camera, he thumbed him "Oudt! Und keep valkink!" When another smiled, Preminger tossed him oudt too. A magazine photographer got in the way, and Preminger fumed. "But I'm from Look!'' cried the lensman. Stormed the Director: "You LOOK! Get oudt...
...Angeles housewife: "We give a big party once a year, and even if it costs a little, I'd rather rent the china and silver I need than ransack the neighborhood borrowing extra cups and plates." Few customers show any signs of embarrassment. Explains a Chicago hostess: "No one would try to pass off rented silverware as her own. It would be like introducing the caterer as your butler...