It was supposed to be a friendly get-together, and that's how it went for the first few minutes, until Keller asked Rove what he thought of the Times' coverage.
After the festivities at Rome's club (followed by a friendly get-together with her dancers and Mike and the Kings), Rome puts her car at their disposal and sends her young rapper and m.c., Andre Donald Gloverr), with them to drive them to their next destination.
Politics was a topic to be carefully avoided during friendly get-togethers.
The informal setting of the first meeting between Xi and Modi is expected to bring a personal touch, much like the friendly get-together of the new Indian leader and Abe in Kyoto before their formal summit in Tokyo.
Many of the locals who dropped in thought the 'happening' was just a friendly get-together, until one woman yelled, "It's LSD! It's LSD! My shrink told me never to take it again". Many of the several hundred guests hit the pay phone to call doctors; others phoned friends with the address.
Post-election days: cool November weekend is filled with heated conversations about the election results, wherever you go: Starbucks, farmers' market, grocery shop, or friendly get-togethers -- and it seems people just wouldn't let it go.
Set up the snacks and drinks like you would for any friendly get-together.
"I'd say if you don't have this group, it would be hard," Carol Meyer, 56, said, "because people in my neighborhood are not friendly at all". The women get together for a variety of social activities but "more and more, the group has evolved into kind of a service organization," Forsyth said.
Both families have lived in the area for generations, and their parents were friendly, eventually urging their single children to get together.
