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Just weeks after Cummings' anniversary gala, Bess Makris celebrated her 50th year with the Coop. Although Makris began at the Harvard Coop, she later transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Coop, then known as the Technology Store. She remains there today...
...recalled to mind a most illuminating conversation that I'd had with a nude Leopold Stokowski, just last week, at a little gala thrown by an equally pre-lapsarian Hank Kissinger in honor of my latest opus, The Oracle Speaks (Knopf, $27.95, although if you have to ask the price you will in all likelihood neither understand nor be able to afford the book...
There is a catch for the powerful though. No matter how upscale a Manhattanite climbs, he can never escape the sight of poverty or the threat of violence. The glitterati on their way to a $1,000-a-ticket gala must tiptoe through the homeless camped outside in their cardboard condos. And at this week's chic disco -- in this week's beyond-chic movie thriller -- a wealthy young woman named Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) may be witness to a murder. And be tabbed and stalked by the killer. And be protected by Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger), a Queens policeman...
Young plays Susan Atwell, the mistress of Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman). Kevin Costner, this summer's hot man in the box office, co-stars as naval officer Tom Farrell. Tom and Susan meet at a hoity-toity Washington inauguration gala, but they've got better things to do and better places to do them--like the back seat of a limousine cruising around our nation's capitol. Sure enough, the sequence includes a nice, long shot of the Washington Monument...
...well as men. No one yet knows if the winner of last year's Dolly Parton look-alike contest -- a man as it happens -- will try his luck again. In Georgia, the colonial dancers of the University of Georgia are already practicing their minuets and reels for a gala ball to be held Jan. 2 at the World Congress Center -- 18th century dress only, please...