Word: hostessing
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...symbol to come up with something your company hasn't tasted before, something they don't even know how to pronounce." In Palm Beach, according to Skippy Harwood, food columnist for the Daily News, "there's nothing more chic right now than a small gourmet party prepared by the hostess, instead of her staff...
...group cannot fully participate in the genteel rituals of late-evening milk and crackers or "gracious living" (drinking sherry by candlelight in hostess gowns) without satirically mocking them. Yet they sense a disquieting gap between themselves and a catatonic freshman (Anna M. Levine) who announces that she plans to make a film about the linguistic philosopher Wittgenstein...
...farmer's wife tossed a little do in her Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter...
...manipulate men to influence policy; nor are they exploited by men to further masculine political careers. Mostly these women offer soothing sensitivities that allow ideas and personalities to merge across dinner tables with a minimum of friction. Sure, it's all a game, concedes Laura Talbert, a veteran hostess and one of McCarthy's leading characters. But the game is played "in the greatest arena of all, where the survival of humanity is at stake rather than, let us say, the competition of business interests. Think what Pittsburgh must be like...
...that it was good to turn inward and attune oneself to subrational body rhythms (runners report that their rhythms of breathing and striding can have the calming effect of a mantra). And if you were what you ate, as the organic-food munchers scolded, who wanted to be a Hostess Twinkie...