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...food wasn't too hot, the bar was poorly manned, and the lights were too high so everyone's wrinkles showed," complained Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn, 34, describing last week's fund-raising gala at Washington's Kennedy Center. Held to salute the Center's Board Chairman Roger Stevens, 65, the black-tie dinner and show had featured Jacqueline Onassis as chairman and star attraction, Gerald and Betty Ford, Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, a clutch of Kennedys and other Washington celebrities. But Sally was unimpressed. "Most of the VIPs looked as if they...
...could dissipate as Gregory's roles are divided among those she has left behind. For the moment, however, her colleagues are mainly concerned for her wellbeing. "Maybe she'll return in six months or a year," said an A.B.T. spokesman. "Then we'll have a comeback gala and everyone will have tears in their eyes...
That sort of callousness is about what people with cancer can expect, according to Hildegard Knef. She has it and lives Proust's horrid little scene. She is in a consulting room when fear engulfs her. "I'll see you at the gala," the doctor assures her. "I'm afraid you won't," she says. "Now, now, now, fresh air, enjoy life and love" is the advice...
That was evident in Peking recently at the Third National Games, a 17-day internal Chinese Olympics. The huge grab bag of a gala involved more than 10,000 athletes vying in dozens of events including track, rowing, shooting, martial arts and chess. During the opening ceremonies at the 80,000-seat Workers' Stadium, the Chinese practiced their flash-card magic; more than 8,000 people were pressed into service to flash poster-size cards. The result of this collective enterprise: "Ode to the Red Flag," a kaleidoscope of socialist realism scenes, beginning with the message...
...child, John Owen regularly visited the plant with his father on gala days. "At company Christmas parties, my father always played Santa Claus. Otherwise he always referred to it as 'the works,' and he must