Some issues are silly, like Larry refusing to submit to the etiquette about not leaving a dinner party before dessert.
A week later, police accosted a friend of mine as she was leaving a dinner.
In 1926, while on a Congressional trip to the Philippines, he left a dinner in a "rage" when Vice-Governor blamed the Democratic Party for misrule in the Islands.
"But, let's be honest, isn't giving a verdict what we all did when we left a dinner party anyway?
On leaving a dinner at the London home of fellow novelist Hanif Kureishi, he recalled that "one of the police officers left his gun behind.
As he left a dinner hosted by the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister was told that a story was breaking back home that a millionaire had been hiding donations to Labour.
An opera based on Buñuel's surreal film where 20 people who cannot leave a dinner party behave like animals and make love to each while civilisation disintegrates is to be a highlight of the Royal Opera's new season.
For instance, in recounting the death in 1971 of Lin Biao, Mao's defense minister and chosen successor, she relies on an account, now discredited, that suggests that Mao had him murdered as he left a dinner party.
Yes, it's about a bunch of people unable to leave a dinner party, but Buñuel's movie, made two years after "Zazie," is also about, for starters, the emptiness of social forms and the fullness of artistic forms, and about narrative illogic as a logical response to the absurdity of the human condition.
