Word: ritz
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...Twirl Competition begins, Andrea Snow struts her way, in sequins and top hat, through some vigorous choreography set to Puttin ' on the Ritz, while an emcee, in her best beauty-pageant voice, announces, "Andrea is five years old, and she's looking forward--[pause]--to entering kindergarten." A little later, Carol, leader of the Mira Costa drill team, starts gnawing at the half-inch nails on each of her eight ringed fingers. "I'm so nervous my stomach hurts," she confides. "But if you become nervous," she tells her charges between hugs, "I'll shoot...
After a brief hobnob with journalists at the British embassy, they headed upstairs to their cozy three-room suite to rest up for the gala White House dinner Saturday evening. The swanky soiree for only 79 guests, certainly the hottest ticket in town, was a mixture of glitz and ritz, power and talent. The guests included Actors Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck and John Travolta, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who was seated at Diana's right), Architect I.M. Pei, Explorer Jacques Cousteau, Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Hockney, and Nancy's cat pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping...
...Friends, and Fenway," and underlying the narrative are a few themes: generational traditions, fathers and mothers and sons and daughters, and this idea that the Red Sox are not, in essence, a baseball team but are, rather, New England-like beans, cod, the Swan Boats, a martini at the Ritz, finnan haddie at LockeOber's, the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, the day's last run at Mad River Glen, a jog around Block Island. And now I was wondering, even as the book hit the stores, whether this last premise was being rendered wholly false by the great fame...
Jamming the Savoy, the Ritz and 125 other London hotels, the crush of counselors all but took over the city. The sober Times pronounced it the largest group of one nationality ever "to attend an event, other than war, in another country." Londoners and regular tourists had to wait in line as lawyers festooned in white name tags filled restaurants, pubs and tour sites that A.B.A. members had booked long in advance. Popular West End productions such as Cats and Starlight Express were sold out, and reservations soared at Raymond's Revue Bar, a burlesque house whose newspaper ads promised...
East End Bagels, HUDS’ new supplier, is also the provider to the Ritz and Four Seasons hotels in Boston. The new carrier fills a conspicuous void left by nationwide vendor Finagle-A-Bagel...