Word: hostessing
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...Astorga has one qualification that may outweigh all others. She has proved she is totally dedicated to the Sandinista regime and, as such, is not likely to defect, as two of her five predecessors in Washington have done. In any event, most observers agree Astorga would offer Washington a hostess with unusual experience. As one U.S. diplomat wryly observed, "There's a limit to how close...
...smartening-up students undergo as they are railroaded into their first "real" jobs, however, their university years are rarely their best-dressed. But what collegians lack in baroque splendor, they more than make up for with a plethora of youth and freshness that the most jaded New York hostess would gleefully trade a year's worth of big-time parties to momentarily possess...
...refueled. Meanwhile, a crack antiterrorist squad was brought in from Moscow. On the following morning, the security forces stormed the plane and the hijackers, reportedly the children of prominent Georgian officials, eventually surrendered. By the time the smoke had cleared, a crew member, a flight mechanic, an air hostess, at least three of the unknown number of passengers and one of the hijackers lay dead...
...busy these days to pump much iron. The U.C.L.A. anthropology graduate, who can dead-lift 225 lbs., has written and appeared in two pictorial bestsellers (Lady; Lisa Lyon's Body Magic) that feature muscle-bulging poses she calls "body sculpture." Now she has left her duties as hostess of a Playboy Network talk show to develop a fashion-modeling career. The 5-ft. 3½-in., 105-lb. unscrawny mannequin currently appears on six pages of the German edition of Vogue; her physique may soon grace rag-trade magazines in Italy and Japan. Lyon will appear before the fashion...
DIED. Françoise de Langlade de la Renta, 62, French-born editor and wife of Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta, whose shrewdness and flair as a hostess propelled the couple to social pre-eminence among New York City's accomplished and powerful; of cancer; in New York City. Editor in chief of French Vogue in the 1960s, she met De la Renta in Paris and brought her elegance and experience to Vogue in New York, becoming an arbiter of taste and fashion among a wide circle of friends. Her lavishly decorated homes in Manhattan and Connecticut influenced...