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...toss a party for him. No passage in The Great Gatsby is more strangely moving than the list of party guests; the silly, nursery-rhyme names-Clarence Endive, Edgar Beaver, the Catlips-roll out like streamers. Yet Gatsby's parties were restrained compared with, say, the $200,000 "picnic" that T.C. and Phyllis Morrow of Houston threw last December for 1,000 friends, including Farrah Fawcett and John Travolta (who did not show), which featured a "country disco band." The emphasis of such fiestas is on the collecting of people, who if they cannot be owned outright...
...pick up dinner at gourmet shop takeout counters. At Pasta, Pasta, Pasta in Los Angeles, a family of four can walk out with a freshly made lasagna dinner for $8.95. A comparable meal in a restaurant could cost $50. Le Marmiton in Santa Monica sells provisions for the perfect picnic. Its Basket for Two Lovers, for example, includes cold sirloin in aspic and a salad of mushrooms in olive oil, garlic and lemon juice...
Freshmen arrive in Cambridge on a Thursday in late August. They get Friday to look around unaccosted before the infamous Freshman Picnic that night...
Death, of course, is life's largest irony. Mortality tolled through Leonard's best-known play, "Da "; in Summer it rustles through the sunlit grass on a verdant hilltop near Dublin. The year is 1968, and three middle-aged couples rendezvous for a picnic. Food, wine, gossip and nostalgic reminiscences mask tiny tremors of apprehension and isolation...
...years later, scars the picnic ground with revelations. In their vulnerability, the characters elicit the playgoer's binding affection. The artful cast is gently persuasive, and Director Brian Murray displays an unerring hand at stirring the evening's fun and folly. - T.E.K...