Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life. To be on the attack is to be more readable." Though Safire describes himself as "a right-winger," never underestimate his fondness for creating a stir. In one column he savaged Reagan's new Attorney General, William French Smith, for attending a 65th birthday party for Frank Sinatra. It was bad enough, Safire wrote, for Reagan to turn to Sinatra for fund-raising help and to put him in charge of Inaugural entertainment, but for an Attorney General to involve himself with "a man obviously proud to be close to notorious hoodlums is the first deliberate affront...
...that day's highlight will be Frank Sinatra's Inauguration eve gala at the Capital Centre in Maryland. Some 19,000 have been invited to pay from $50 to $10,000 (for a ten-seat box) to see OF Blue Eyes put on a show that will include Johnny Carson, Debby Boone, Donny Osmond, Ethel Mer man, Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston...
Administration theologist (George Will), classiest caterer (Finesse), top decorator (Ted Graber), happiest hobby (chopping wood), most dashing dress designer (Adolfo), most celebrated friend (Frank Sinatra) and the assistant President (Ed Meese...
...Reagans throw an official bash, Nancy will bring back hard liquor, pomp and circumstance. Ballroom dancing, which both Reagans enjoy, will return to vogue, and the entertainment will be cheery; husband and wife relish wholesome groups of young people singing in rousing harmony. Old Hollywood friends, such as Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston, will turn up at state dinners and public ceremonies, some of which will be white...
...Please keep this under your Stetson," read Barbara Sinatra's invitation, "but I'm tossing a surprise birthday party for my blue-eyed cowboy." Cary Grant, the Fred Astaires, the Gregory Pecks, Spiro Agnew, the Johnny Carsons and 200 others were on hand to greet the guest of honor at his own spread in Rancho Mirage, Calif., under a tent rigged with saloon-style bars, cacti, a bandstand and spittoons. Old Blue Eyes was delighted: "I'm gushing with happiness," said he. Guess when a man turns 65, it's time to hoe down...