Word: hostessing
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Jessica Fortunato, Lizzy Marlantes, Lacey Tucker, and Micheal Wertheim shared 13 roles between them. Fortunato played the plastic talk-show hostess of "Hello New York" memorably. Marlantes' performance as Lisa, Scoop's spunky Southern belle wife, was particularly touching as she discovers her husband's philandering ways. And Tucker was especially compelling as Becky, a realistic, naive character on the verge of feminist consciousness. While this casting furthered the intimate effect of the production, at times it was a bit confusing...
...training from Madam Alex, Heidi struck out on her own. She started small, operating out of a modest little house in Los Angeles' bohemian Melrose district. She was a familiar sight at On the Rox, a swanky Hollywood nightclub, where her friend Victoria Sellers served as a hostess. "Heidi would be with a group of girls in the corner," recalls an observer. "You'd see her get up and talk to a guy by the bar, then she'd go back and get a girl, and then the girl would go over and sit on the guy's lap while...
Ginsburg said when she was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in the fall of 1971, the hostess at the Faculty Club asked her if she would feel "more comfortable in the ladies dining room." The judge said she ate in the regular faculty dining room...
...Though some are new immigrants driven to the trade by financial troubles, most are temporary visitors who enter the country on tourist visas. Scores of ads for "entertainment services," many boasting "hot new Russians," riddle the Israeli papers. Bars in major Chinese cities now offer blond, blue-eyed Russian "hostesses," while in Tokyo, Russian girls are the latest addition to the menu in fancy "hostess" bars. In Modena, Italy, last fall, police rounded up more than 100 women from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and points east. Allegedly lured as dancers by a self-described theatrical agent, they were then forced...
Crescent N. Mohammed '97 from South Bend, Ind., says Harvard did not provide her any campus contacts after she was accepted, so she depended on her experiences at pre-frosh weekend to answer her concerns about the campus climate. In fact, when she discovered her hostess was not Black, she stopped a group of Black female students walking down the street and asked them if she could stay with them...