The video showed a period dinner, replete with Meissen porcelain and 18th century silver.
Though set in very different time periods -- "Dinner" during the Depression, "Tartuffe" in the 17th century -- both productions deal with the harrowing prospect of losing one's fortune, themes that seem all too timely.
Separate analyses were conducted of the periods after dinner (1800 2300 h), overnight (2300 0700 h), and after breakfast (0700 1200 h).
Twenty applicants are rotated through each day over a five day period, with dinners and parties each night.
We could tell our in-laws we don't feel like coming to their house for dinner, period.
Soap operaish complications and clashes of wills, reminiscent of high-society period dramas like "Dinner at Eight," wreck both the party and Little Edie's matrimonial prospects.
"The Europeans who arrived in the eleventh century were bananas about bananas," he told me, his point being that for every period of crusaders gnawing bones at dinner there were periods of great gastronomic surprises and sophistication and even a certain amount of monotheistic mingling.
In a house with three women, my male housemate swore up down and sideways that every Sunday without fail, we'd end up talking about our periods, usually around the dinner table.
And there was something to that — Van Dyke calls this period her "Hugh Hefner and dinner jackets" phase.
During this period, Đính told a dinner guest that he had the pleasure of dining with a great national hero.
But more importantly, our results suggest we take our waste management more seriously now to prevent plastic debris from ending up on our dinner plate period.
