Word: bacchanalia
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...Ancient Greeks told of a mania that masquerades as clarity, one that demands tearing a human being limb from limb and scattering his or her remains to the winds to quench some dire compulsion for cosmic order. That kind of bacchanalia, bloody and bestial, did not perish with the age of Sophocles. The remains of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper County, East Texas, are testament to its endurance...
...underwent two of the most time-honored rites of passage at Louisiana State University last week. He received a pledge pin from the fraternity that voted him into the brotherhood, and he got rip-roaring drunk to celebrate. Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring "funneling," in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the drinker's mouth. Next came a communal bender at Murphy's bar, a frat hangout a few hundred yards from L.S.U. There, the libation of choice was "Three Wise Men," a high...
Lebed prevailed by force of will. After eight hours of strenuous talks with the rebel leaders, interrupted by frantic calls to the Chechen and Russian camps to quell sporadic fighting, he announced a breakthrough that he claimed would "terminate this bloody bacchanalia." A cease-fire would commence at noon on Friday, Russian troops would begin departing Grozny, and joint patrols would police the shattered city. In another couple of days, he promised to produce a permanent political solution to Chechnya's bid for independence. Never mind that similar plans have come and gone in the 20-month war. Claiming credit...
...rugby club's reputation derives as much from its off-the-field exploits as those on it. Through the years, the squad has cultivated an image of Team Bacchanalia, showing up for its games aching from the previous night's excesses but still managing to win a lot more often than it loses...
Part two of the Madonna's promotional bacchanalia is The Book, appropriately titled Sex. For regular readers of Playboy, Penthouse and Swank, the purchasing procedure for Sex will be remarkably familiar. The book is kept behind the counter, and you must provide positive identification to prove you're eighteen years or older, which entitles you to the privilege of laying down $50 for this piece of "erotica." The book is packaged in mylar (no peeking!), and once unwrapped, it cannot be returned--publisher's rules...