Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more sizable, not the least of which is "the increased risk of breast cancer indicated by many studies," says Horowitz. Then there's drunken driving. "Placing contradictory labels on wine bottle will simply serve to dilute the impact of the warnings already there," she says. And few will toast to that...
...posh party to honor a Danish patriarch on his 60th birthday, the favored son rises to make a toast. His father, he says, sexually ravaged him and his twin sister, a recent suicide, when they were kids. This acerbic farce-melodrama, laureled at Cannes and by critics' groups, is directed in a fake-verite style that distracts a bit from the entertaining spectacle of the rich airing their bloody silk underwear in public. But it's still creepy fun to watch the upper class pretend a family isn't in tatters. When propriety meets outrage in a chateau, guess which...
...power, not justice, that determines who gets arrested. Noriega was no worse than the Haitian dictators. He was certainly far less a killer, torturer and oppressor than Fidel Castro, who is the toast of every capital he visits. And he is a piker beside the butchers of Tiananmen Square, who are received with deference everywhere they...
...believable romantic roles. In one version of La Boheme, with Jane Eaglan as Mimi, the Met had to build a bed that sunk with her weight to help some of the extra bulk. Hoelterhoff fills the chapter out with a mock "Diva Diet," which begins with a slice of toast for breakfast and ends with an "entire frozen Sara Lee cheesecake" for a late-night snack...
...gave him an ultimatum about moving troops from the West Bank, was growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli stalling. Friday night, as the Israelis celebrated the Sabbath, Albright was host to a small, Arabs-only dinner. "I really understand the pain and aspirations of your people," she said in a toast. Chief Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross was warning his colleagues not to alienate Netanyahu. With the right tactics, Ross said, there was hope for a deal...