Word: hostessing
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Strike off a medal for Chicago Tribune's Maxwell. If a hostess brought the garbage can in the living room and lifted the lid for all to admire and discuss the contents, we would be shocked. So what is so wrong with Host Maxwell's removal of the Garbage Can School of Literature from the Trib's parlor...
...just past midnight. The 300 guests have emerged from the gaily trimmed dining tents, and are now doing the cha cha cha on the wooden dance floor that covers part of the lawn. A champagne fountain burbles into the hollow-stem crystalware. The hostess snuggles her mink stole over her airy Howard Greer original. The host pats his cummerbund and stares expansively at his Thunderbird convertible in the drive. Then he surveys the whole scene and realizes that he is not the master of a blessed thing he surveys. The tents, the chairs, the band, the dance floor, the artificial...
Once the basics are mastered. Kenyan women matriculate in the Good Hostess school to learn the all-important rituals of cocktail and dinner parties, where so much governmental business is conducted. After paying only $28 for a six-weeks' course, they learn how to navigate in high heels, how to make artistic canapes, and how to argue with the butcher for a good cut of meat. Some students are fascinated with mixing food and drink, put together duodenum-rending concoctions. One teacher spent half an hour dissuading a determined student from combining sausages and fruit salad as a main...
...considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent of the first Noel, and much of it seemed wooden to Boston critics. But Elaine Stritch, as the cruise hostess, is full of verve. Joe Layton's choreography is superb, and the lyrics are delightful, as when they ask the ultimate question on tourism...
...drove under its huge wing, and the ground crew hooked up a fuel line. "It was strange," recalls Second Officer Norman Simmons. "A routine landing in every way, except that we didn't unload passengers or baggage." Aboard the jet the passengers sat in shocked silence as a hostess instructed them to stay in their seats: "We may be flying on to Havana." Cody Bearden lounged in the doorway of the cabin, casually swinging his .45 revolver and keeping a sullen eye on the frightened passengers. Then a pregnant female passenger seemed to be approaching hysteria about her plight...