There in the elegant London hall men in tuxedos and women in slinky, sparkly gowns gathered during the cocktail hour.
There's also an engaging image of the rooftop bar at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, where, based on the sparse crowd, long shadows and two female servers in little black dresses chatting idly, the evening cocktail hour is just getting going.
"The whole deal with the preppy summertime lifestyle is that you go right from the beach into cocktail hour or you're on a boat, " he says.
As I walked through it alone during a visit there this spring, it reminded me in some ways of Ian Fleming's Goldeneye in Jamaica, a spartan but splendidly labyrinthine retreat devoted to both a productive life and to the elegant sunset cocktail hour.
The 300, 000-square-foot institution in Jersey City serves 600, 000 school-age potential geniuses every year, according to Vice President Dan Menelly, who gave us a private tour of the museum during the evening's cocktail hour.
The ambience feels relaxed and chic, the perfect place for a happy hour cocktail or a witching hour nightcap.
Why do we feel the pressure to evaluate every conference, cocktail hour and business card by its immediate ROI?
Constance had stopped by the No Judgment Store for cigarettes and cocktail-hour food: processed cheese and crackers, gherkins, olives, meat that did not require refrigeration.
Although evidence on the benefits and risks of alcohol is mixed, to be safe I also decided to cut out cocktail hour.
Sip a cocktail created by award-winning mixologist Stephen Martin (declared Best Mixologist in France 2009 by Cocktail Zone), and watch the Eiffel tower sparkle as its lights twinkle for five minutes every hour on the hour every night until 1 am.
For the first hour, we listened to Mr. Ehrmann talk of how San Francisco had long been a cocktail town as far back as its Gold Rush days.
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