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In London, where his book comes out later this month, his publisher is throwing a smart party for him.
Personally, I don't like the feeling of exposure that comes with a picture of myself – it feels like those anxiety dreams where you turn up at a smart party without your knickers – I expect someone to point and laugh or say something rude.
City high-flyer Gillian Anderson and her newly acquired blue-collar toyboy (Danny Dyer, whose name currently goes with screen violence the way straw goes with dogs) become victims of rural road rage on their way back from a smart party.
It is certainly the case that it is practically impossible to go to a smart party in London without finding Roberts, usually squiring a beautiful woman - recently his second wife, public relations executive, Susan Gilchrist - and always surrounded by admirers listening to his tales of cosy dinners with George Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Sorry for those times we were invited to smart parties and I parked you round the corner because you had no hub caps.
The pages of his magazine, the Criterion, were full of bile towards their world of adultery and smart parties – and he published it even though when socially convenient he was able to blame Vivienne for writing it.
Halfway through Angela Carter's 1987 Wise Children, the Chance sisters attend a Twelfth Night costume ball at a country house called Lynde Court, involving royalty and riffraff from the worlds of acting and film – as Dora says: "We'd been to some smart parties since we got the star on our door but never one as smart as this".
She wanted to be a New York intellectual: to be a critic of culture, not just literature and to help form the opinions of people who really mattered in New York - which, as every New Yorker knows, is the centre of the universe - as well as going to all the smart parties.
At these smart parties the poorly paid curators will bump into wealthy collectors, many of whom they will already know, having met them back at their museum during a private view or on a fundraising committee.
PayScale created the party schools that pay, and BuzzFeed tried the smartest party schools.
In the boom, crash, and New Deal periods she has gone to, when she hasn't given, what have been reported as the smartest parties, on both sides of the Atlantic.
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