Drinks and dinner will precede at 6, and there will be a dessert reception after the concert.

The dinner precedes the opening on Dec. 7 of a Costume Institute exhibit, "Haute Couture."

The typical American dinner is an entrée with a starch and a vegetable, preceded in some cases by a salad or soup and followed with dessert.

A reception and dinner at the Mayflower Inn in Washington will precede the screening, and the tab for the evening will be $100.

At a dinner preceding Daimler-Benz's news conference last year to report 1987 earnings, a cabaret star performed a song-and-dance routine about the company's history and future.