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...with purplish hair and insouciance to spare, and the honored guests were George Jones and Tammy Wynette. I sat slack-jawed and transfixed as they sang (We're Not) the Jet Set. ("No, We're not the Jet Set/ We're the old Chevrolet set/ Our steak and martini/ Is draft beer with weenie"*). She sat on the plush blue antique sofa, hair poufed out to here, with nails, makeup and outfit perfectly coordinated. She looked like a lotus blossom sitting next to George Jones, a perfect foil, but completely herself. It was the most relaxed I was ever...
...Metropolitan Opera, to downtown shopping Meccas. The NYC cook kidz, clad in de rigeur black, chattered at downtown hot spot Moomba, overhearing cell phone conversation about West Coast casting, Oscar gossip and the upcoming Seventh on Sixth fashion shows in Bryant Park. As ever, the eight dollar martini called for "drinks at the bar with my American Express," as Wyclef puts...
DIED. HAROLD ("Hal") LIPSET, 78, private eye who famously put a bug in a martini olive; in the town that avidly tracked his gumshoe doings, San Francisco. Founder of the World Association of Detectives, Lipset demonstrated his electrical know-how for a Senate subcommittee in the 1960s with that oft parodied olive. Duly impressed, Washington briefly hired him as a Watergate investigator...
...says you need to be sober to beat the Elis? (Don't they stink this year, anyway?) Dr. Know wagers that a stiff martini would chase away those pre-game heebee-jeebees faster than you can say "Crimson Sports Grille." Try asking your coach about it. I'm sure he will understand...
...this series, and many of her series, Norfleet takes great care to carefully record, subject, name, date and location--as if she were doing an objective study of class relations. Yet somehow these photographs seem staged. Everyone is in place in this world captured by Norfleet; expressions, clothing and martini glasses are all just so. But is she revealing her subjects to us, or has she created her own class of sorts...