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SEVERAL COMPLAINTS the major label panel faced centered on the New York establishment's ready acceptance of English bands to the disadvantage of home-grown talent. "New York clubs almost exclusively book the English bands," complained Surrette, although Boys Life will be playing the Peppermint Lounge and the Ritz soon. Dick Wingate, Epic Records, explained: "English bands generally record their record in England. We have a finished record to listen to. That's different from listening to an American band at 2 o'clock in the morning at CBGB...
...disdained the tray of eggs, hash browns and sausage that was eventually offered. Throughout the night, he rarely slept; he just stared at the dank walls of the six-bed cell, which he occupied alone, and at the thick windowpanes flanking the barred door. This was not the Ritz in London, one of his favorite jet-set stops, nor his art-rilled office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue. John Zachary De Lorean's dream of soaring to industrial fame on the gull-winged glitter of his stainless-steel sports car had turned into a nightmare...
Early in the morning, executives are all business. Chitchat is kept to a minimum, and participants go right to work. Notes Rob Cornell, marketing director of Chicago's Ritz-Carlton hotel, where breakfast meetings have doubled in the past few years: "People are fresher in the morning...
...stylishly dressed party of eight lunching at a center table in Chicago's tony Ritz-Carlton restaurant is about to start the second course. As white-aproned waiters whisk in artichauts vinaigrette, the guests exchange amiable chitchat. Dark-haired August Walker Pelton regales the group with an anecdote about Princess Caroline of Monaco. "She tells me," he confides, "that when anyone in their family has elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after...
...moral equivalents of war," the safe ways of working off man's aggressive tendencies. Perhaps football is a moral equivalent which will someday save us all, but even this happy prospect cannot account for the standees on the Stadium roof and the 10,000 extra olives at the Ritz...