Sometimes a simple cocktail offers a breather on a list crowded with ambitious concoctions, its modesty acting as a merciful comma in a monologue brimming with ten-dollar words and knotty phrases.
Nodding at the A-list crowd, she looked across the table and caught the eye of her husband, Thomas.
Entrepreneurial producers are staging musicals that offer atmospherics and alcohol in hopes of attracting a new A-list crowd to fill more theater seats.
And Klaus Schwab, the impresario of the World Economic Forum, welcomed an A-list crowd to a twinkling ballroom at the Hotel Belvedere.
Mr. Guadagnino, however, said the "Jersey Shore" housemates had become "A-list celebrities overnight," then backed off slightly, adding that the show had put them "in the A-list crowd".
It has not prevented the Daily Mail from orchestrating a very C-list crowd of OAPs, plus Nigel "Putin" Farage and ex-ambassador Chris Meyer, to condemn him for what the Mail calls "slaughter that shames Blair".
Though it has since been rechristened the Top of the Standard, it still hosts the same A-list crowd, and after half a decade of exclusive parties and 360-degree views, those celebrating the lounge's anniversary were still fondly referring to it by its original name.
Sauri was the first of what are now more than 80 Millennium Villages across Africa, a showcase project that was the dream child of Jeffrey D. Sachs, the Harvard-trained, Columbia University economist who runs with an A-list crowd: Bono, both Bills (Clinton and Gates), George Soros, Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon and others.
George Clooney worked his magic on much – but not all — of Venice this weekend, charming waiters, exiting fans and annoying the odd gondolier as he and his A-list crowd swanned around the lagoon city liked they owned it in the breathless build up to the show business wedding of the year.
In an accompanying article, the artist recounted her first concert: she performed at the Top of the Standard, in New York, for an A-list crowd before she graduated from F.I.T. Kish's docile, conversational vocal tone, celestial dust beats, and meticulously chic finish made her an overnight darling in the style press.
