Word: hostessing
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Demme is tops at luring these confidences, these comic grace notes, out of his performers. And Pfeiffer knows how to dish them out with the generosity of an haut-monde hostess casting intimate glances at strangers. Both artists have made funky music before -- easy on the ears, with reverberations that jangle provocatively in a moviegoer's memory. But the violent mood swings Demme programmed into films like Melvin and Howard and Something Wild often kept viewers at a bemused remove. And once or twice Pfeiffer has been stuck in films she could ornament but not inform. This time, though, these...
Fitzgerald might have been less intimidated beforehand had he realized how well his hostess understood human insecurities and frailties. "Goodbye, goodbye," she had written Fullerton in 1908. "Write or don't write, as you feel the impulse -- but hold me long & close in your thoughts. I shall take up so little room, & it's only there that I'm happy!" She was then internationally renowned but also trapped in a long, misbegotten marriage to / Edward R. (Teddy) Wharton, a hale fellow and manic-depressive whom her good friend Henry James suspected of being "cerebrally compromised." On the other hand...
...hopes to become the next Ambassador to the United Nations. At the same conference, Andrew Pierre, a Paris-based defense expert, was the first to ask Dukakis a question. "Andrew shot up out of his seat like a Pershing II missile," a colleague knowingly observed. In social Washington, Hostess Jayne Ikard, who has partied with Reaganauts for the past eight years, has been overheard authoritatively telling friends, "I was born in Brookline...
...comma, by comparison, catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table...
...West, Raisa has earned high marks for her breadth of knowledge. At a private party given by Washington Hostess Pamela Harriman, the widow of Averell Harriman, who was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow from 1943 to 1946, Raisa discussed the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and brought up the inner workings of Congress with Senators Barbara Mikulski and Nancy Kassebaum. However, Mikulski later said that "Mrs. Gorbachev is like an East European professor who speaks in paragraphs. There is no free exchange with...