Word: banquet
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...that most confounds understanding. What in the world are we doing? Why in the world are we so consumed by it? The impulse to procreate may lie at the heart of sex, but like the impulse to nourish ourselves, it is merely the starting point for an astonishingly varied banquet. Bursting from our sexual center is a whole spangle of other things--art, song, romance, obsession, rapture, sorrow, companionship, love, even violence and criminality--all playing an enormous role in everything from our physical health to our emotional health to our politics, our communities, our very life spans...
...magazine?s roster of contributors was as distinguished as any in English-language journalism. Vladimir Nabokov, John Cheever, John Updike, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and such cartoonists as Dedini, Barsotti, Kliban: they could be the front table at a New Yorker banquet. Skeptics suspected that Hefner got the second-best from the best, or work the New Yorker had rejected, and that Playboy settled for B material from the A team in order to appropriate their literary celebrity. Some folks in publishing had a dismissive term for Playboy fiction: ?shit from names...
...festival left members of the audience stunned, with powerful works including Anonymously Yours, an exploration of the sex-trafficking business in southeast Asia, and The Global Banquet: Politics of Food, a look at the growing threat that corporate globalization represents for small farmers...
...Total of monkeys attending a feast last week in Lopburi, central Thailand. The nine-course meal included Jell-O and cola. The banquet is hosted annually by a local businessman who believes the monkeys have brought him good fortune...
Balestracci will be honored at the Sheraton Needham Hotel during the Gridiron Club’s Bob Whelan College Football Awards Banquet...