Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...window, it is the garden of narcissism," he explains. "People go there just to be seen, not to make out. At the bar there is heavy hitting. You stand there to get picked up. The pinball section is heavy macho, with horseplay between the sexes. In the back room is backgammon, where the more mature and intelligent can go to talk and not get hit on. People shift from room to room, but every area has its definite
...woman from Dallas took her PossLQ home for the weekend recently to meet her parents. Her mother usually came to the door to meet her, but not this time. Her father squared himself in the front hall like an immense stack of Gideon Bibles and announced: "That's your room there. That's your room there." Then the mother came on like a p.a. system: "NO HANKY-PANKY IN THIS HOUSE...
...rarer and rarer. "In the olden days," she says, "you wrote automatically. The notes were done by rote and said nothing. Now they may be fewer, but they mean more." Dr. Alfred Messer of Atlanta cheerfully tells a story of going to eat lunch at his hospital's dining room some months ago. "I instinctively stood up to hold the chair of a woman colleague who had carried her sandwich over to the table. She almost cracked me in the face!" Charlotte Ford insists that she still likes the old chivalry?doors opened, cigarettes lighted. "Men are still...
Tish Baldrige is a very memorable character. At 6 ft. 1 in., with her strong, intelligent head held at full altitude, her white hair swept back in the Fifth Avenue mane, she enters a room with queenly bearing. But Tish manages to mitigate her formidable presence: she is a direct and funny woman with a clear gaze and a trace of self-mockery. Far from stuffy about good taste, she is even given to repeating the awful and ancient schoolyard joke that is a painful memory to every oversize woman: "Confucius say, boy who dance with tall girl get bust...
...Chicago, Tish married Robert Hollensteiner, a real estate executive who, among other things, has the advantage of being nearly four inches taller than Tish. They live with their son Malcolm, 11, in a twelve-room cooperative apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park. Daughter Clare is away at the boarding school Tish attended, Miss Porter...