When the dinner-party episode was read in class, my sons found it hilarious, which is why they were taunting me.
The Angry White Males joined Promise Keepers, and mellowed. (Even Rush Limbaugh is beginning to sound like Georgetown dinner-party material.) Outside Texas and Florida, most Family-Values Latinos forgave the Democrats their weakness for abortion and homosexuality.
Late in the evening, loading dinner-party dishes into the dishwasher, she remarked to Seth that it was hardly surprising that Joey should be confused about the distinction between children and adults his own mother seemed to suffer from some confusion about which of the two she was.
Embattled Social Secretary Desiree Rogers stepped down on Friday, three months after state dinner party-crashers drew her competence into question.
You might think it bad taste to hold a war-themed dinner party now, of all times but Sunita pulled it off.
Collecting became such an addiction, Mr. Nulty once ducked out of a country-club dinner party to rush home for the final minutes of an eBay auction.
For more than 15 years he has insisted that his employees attend a pre-party pizza dinner.
Since reds are more delicate and sensitive to flight, Moorfield admits that the Economy Class offerings can't compare with a glass at a wine-buff's dinner party.
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Other arts winners included Ayad Akhtar winning the drama prize for "Disgraced, " a play about a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party spins out of control amid a heated discussion of identity and religion.
Back at his house on Staten Island, we pan-seared the bass in a mango-and-walnut sauce for our dinner party.
These volumes sit on the shelf ready to inspire you when preparing for a dinner party or looking to fancy-up breakfast.
He's no snob he devours shows like "Mad Men" and "Enlightened, " and with Rico Gagliano hosts a public-radio show called "The Dinner Party Download, " an omnivorous guide to arts and culture that broadcasts nationally.
The Brits are famously obsessed with their mortgages--before the credit crunch, it was impossible to attend a British dinner party without someone gloating about the staggering rise in the value of his or her home--but 2008 put a damper on such pretensions.
Because once the dinner party gets rolling, and all those Gen-X wives settle onto the couch with their white wine, your buddies are going to want to join you in the kitchen, hogging all the fun.
Nothing lends more gravitas to a dinner party than eating off three honking slabs of weathered early-20th-century oak.
Here's some ammunition for your next dinner party conversation: The possibility of a 1990's-style housing crash in Britain just became a bit more real.
Cindy Moelis recalled a dinner party the Obamas gave when they were newlyweds: shrimp-and-pasta, inexpensive art on the walls from their travels to Hawaii and Kenya.
Bloggers and forum posters will catch on, and instead of a raucous dinner party, the web will become more like a never-ending global job interview, in which every remark is carefully vetted lest it look bad in the eyes of a future employer.
Yet anybody with a blog or a social-networking page is effectively treating it as a gigantic electronic dinner party, in which conversation is free and informal, friends can keep track of each other's most mundane experiences and any thoughts that take one's fancy can be instantly shared with anybody else who owns a computer.
It kicks off with a beach party and culminates with a Caribbean-style Fat Tuesday of dinner, dancing and a live steel band on a white sand beach.
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Thai stocks have been on a roll this year, along with the Thai currency which hit a five-year high on the day that I met the musician at a dinner party.
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It's like, you know, you've got - I mean, it's like when you're at a dinner party and you think, oh, that other person's wife, she's enchanting.
So while he was only mildly annoyed that we ended up donating twice what we had planned, he was mostly irritated that I bought a dinner party for six people to be held at someone's house a half-hour away.
The individuals under consideration for immunity were part of Democratic Party fund-raisers at the Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles and at a dinner at the Hay Adams Hotel here in Washington, both last year.
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So all week, the news-starved, food-starved media have been crashing the Party s parties, grabbing sound bites and bites of dinner at the same time.
There are some murmurs of resistance to speeding this onto the statute book - but with all party agreement behind it, Her Majesty should be signing it into law by dinner time.
They have also managed to sit in on a dinner party with Uday and Qusay Hussein, the president's odious sons, and piece together the life-style of his inner circle with fascinating detail.
You might say that it marked a peculiar moment in the evolution of Gawker, which was once described to Denton at a dinner party as the place where losers talk about winners a venue for punching upward, with hive-mind tendencies of its own.
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