Word: hostessing
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...said. Less than a month ( after the wedding, clients of the architectural firm were shocked to see Svetlana slap her husband at a gala dinner party. At Taliesin West's summer headquarters in Spring Green, Wis., a resident recalls, Svetlana threw the contents of a highball glass into the hostess's face during a cocktail party and was forcibly escorted...
...added delight, Lurie serves her romantic comedy with a mix of entertaining minor characters. There's Fred's wife and her photo exhibition of the male organs Vinnie finds so distasteful, a Cockney housekeeper philosopher, and Edwin Frances, the "homosexual who likes to dress up in his hostess's clothes...
Southern Californians cherish a style unlike anything elsewhere. One Hollywood hostess, Stacey Winkler, 36, wife of Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler, is noted for her elaborate invitations. She summoned guests to a Halloween party, for example, by writing messages on the sides of pumpkins, wrapping the pumpkins in ribbons, and having them delivered by a chauffeur in a ghost costume. She was dismayed, on the other hand, when a hired bartender arrived in a tuxedo; she immediately sent him home to change into Bermuda shorts. "No one who knows us," she says proudly, "would wear...
...night the conversation threads along: aching feet, daughters' weddings, chemotherapy, whether or not it will rain that weekend-and men. A coffee-shop hostess says, "You know Howard? My old boyfriend? He's seeing a new girl. She's 30, with two kids. They've already got an apartment together. Well, last night he comes into my place. I gave him one of my superduper dirty looks. He says I've got to talk to him because the two of them need money. He wants to borrow some. Can you imagine...
...hostess sighs. "I never thought I'd be carrying menus at 35." And then, "What do you think I ought to wear when he comes back to get the money?" -By Jane O'Reilly