Word: hostessing
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...also enhance the entire production. Alceste's complaints against the hypocrisy of his times may well have come from cynical journalists in the 1920s, so his occupation suits his disposition in the play. Celimene's many lovers are a sign of the fast-moving times, and her role as hostess, a nod to women's greater independence after the War. The most exciting new feature of the play however, comes at the end of the second act. The scene shifts continually from Celimene's apartment to Alceste and Arsinoe. The audience watches Alceste discover Celimene's deception at the same...
Senior House party hostess Chana R. Schoenberger, who is also a Crimson executive, told FM that nothing really happened except that "strangers were getting it on" in her living room...
...surface of the Zeitgeist this time. Sure, he's missed the facts that restaurants have replaced clubs, that ostentatious wealth is being spent inside the home and that even for most celebrities, late-night partying has ceased to be cool. And, yes, it is a little sad when the hostess at Balthazar doesn't even know how to pronounce his last name. But why use a sledgehammer? Somebody's got to chronicle what's going on with the druggies and clubbers...
...four-letter words, unless you have known the host and hostess at least 10 years and the other guests at least five. And even then don't use them...
...child of the three glamorous Cushing sisters (the oldest married Vincent Astor, the youngest was the legendary society figure Babe Paley), she wrote the book on marrying money. The first wife of F.D.R.'s oldest son, James Roosevelt (when mother-in-law Eleanor was away, Betsey played White House hostess), she was the widow of tycoon John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...