They have even been known to get up from their community dining tables to participate in an impromptu electric slide.

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Separately and together, he and his sometime lover and regular companion, Giancarlo Giammetti, made sure to greet and double-cheek kiss friends and supporters sitting at all the tables in their area, ranging from the young (the former reality-television star Olivia Palermo, the Brant brothers, the model Jessica Hart and her shipping-heir boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos) to the established (the interior designer Mica Ertegun, Barbara Walters, the Texan philanthropist Lynn Wyatt, the Greek businesswoman Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki).

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Hundreds of Venezuelans gathered at its tables with family and friends, riveted to the news broadcasts from their country Tuesday.

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Borrowing from the speed-dating format, creative directors scrutinized the candidates and their portfolios while leaning over candlelit tables.

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Brisk, well-informed staff zip between tables, helping first-time visitors sort out their Jeruzalem-made white wines from their hearty karst teran reds.

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