Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Turning 21 in this country seems to be the secular equivalent of being bar mitzvah-ed. (Not that I have too much experience with it; I refer you to my byline.) Isn't it odd that we earn the law's permission to libate ourselves silly after we earn the right to vote for President or the risk of being tried as an adult and sent to jail for embezzling from "An Evening With Champions"? At 18, we're entrusted with legal control over and responsibility for our actions. Three years later, we're granted the legal right...
...asked for suggestions about what I should do during my semester in Moscow. Rather than giving me the usual guidebook trash about the Kremlin and the Tretyakov Gallery, he instead told me, in the imperative tone of a Russian speaking English, "You will go to the Hungry Duck Bar, you will drink and meet girls, you will dance on the bar, you will have a good time...
...three months later, I found myself in the thick of Ladies' Night at the Hungry Duck. In theory, I should not have seen this part of the evening--Ladies' Night means that women get in and drink free until 9 p.m. while men are not even allowed in the bar. At nine, the bar opens its doors to a limited number of salivating males. As patron Eliot Hodge `02 explains, "Ladies' night at the Duck is basically a form of free prostitution...
...strange twist of fate and connections, however, I got in about an hour before the rest of the men, just in time to see the male strip-show. As the stripper stood on the bar and disrobed a willing teenage girl, the bartender suggestively sprayed the crowd with soda water. The sounds of moans and screams issued from the speakers, and hundreds of drunken women screamed for more, and I realized that I was not at the Grille anymore...
...time the stripper had a girl stripped fully naked up on the bar," said manager Melissa Brooks of a particularly raucous Ladies' Night. "He asked for a condom, and someone from the crowd tossed one up to him. He was all ready to go when one of the bartenders stopped...