Word: hostessing
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...Hang a lamb chop in the window," was the advice legendary hostess Perle Mesta gave those who wanted to make a place for themselves in the capital. Craig Spence, a would-be power broker with a taste for Edwardian suits, took that advice to heart when he arrived in Washington in the late 1970s and hurled himself into high-intensity party-giving at his elegant town house in the fashionable Kalorama section of town...
...estate in the San Fernando Valley. The talent manager significant in Johnny's early triumphs was fired, and his clients were barred from the Tonight show; he retired to a farmhouse in upstate New York. Carson got married a second time, in 1963, to Joanne Copeland, a game-show hostess. The marriage started disintegrating after its sixth year, and they were divorced...
...published in 1972 by LIFE. The text explores how modern society distances those who cause a disaster from those who suffer the effects. But it is also about -- to the extent that the hallucinatory stream of consciousness can be said to be "about" anything -- transvestism, multinational corporations, military buildups, Hostess cupcakes and rape of every variety. At times, director Reza Abdoh's 135-minute, intermissionless work, co-written with Mira- Lani Oglesby, sounds like the ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic; at times, it is performance art of fever pitch and mute beauty...
...life has changed for the worse when she attends her first cocktail party and the photographer asks her to step aside while he snaps a picture. For Janis Berman, wife of California Congressman Howard Berman, the initiation was even ruder. She called several weeks in advance to tell the hostess of a party welcoming the Bermans to the capital that she would be stuck in Los Angeles that day. After ascertaining that the Congressman would be in town, the hostess briskly told Berman, "That's O.K. We'll just go ahead without...
...back the pair decides to detour at Store 24 to buy another two-liter bottle of Coke and a Hostess doughnut 12-pack...