Word: bashed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Once the fight began, when Tyson made his customary first-round rush, and referee Eddie Cotton had to keep cautioning Lewis about clenching, it looked like a Golden Oldie was under way - maybe a standard Mike Tyson bash session, a victory by annihilation, like those of his heyday fifteen years ago, before some unexpected losses, a rape conviction, and various other scrapes with adversity had tarnished Tyson's edge...
...tailors who toil there. But the Savile Row residents are used to the antics of Ozwald Boateng, the tailor who opened a shop at the end of their street in 1995 - and went out of business five years later. Boateng's return was the cause of the big bash. "It's fun," said one tailor watching the models parade in beaded suits, "but the quality ..." Quality aside, tailors like Boateng did shake up the row when they first arrived. Faced with the colorful displays hanging in Richard James or in Boateng's shop, some on Savile Row stuck to their...
...speculate and gossip about the scandal. Prosecutors charge the pair with using the stolen funds to finance “lavish lifestyles” and Gomes’ expensive drug habit. Rumors about past extravagances and transgressions—like Pomey’s open-bar 21st birthday bash, financed by Gomes, or Pomey’s less than honest behavior as business manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and a leader in women’s social organizations—became breakfast-table reading material and dinnertime conversation fodder for students who hadn’t even known what...
...week an internal revolt against Messier spilled into the Paris streets after he fired Pierre Lescure, the popular president of Vivendi's money-losing pay-TV company, Canal Plus. Irate workers--claiming once again that Messier was selling out Gallic culture for profits--commandeered a studio, televised a Messier bash-in and protested near the Champs Elysees. Messier refused to back down, and his board looks certain to stand behind...
...annual Miramax pre-oscar bash looked like a frothy success. Lots of celebs (Nicole Kidman! Salman Rushdie! Diane Sawyer!) and rivers of Piper-Heidsieck champagne. And there were skits as always--send-ups of the company's Oscar-nominated movies, including a spoof of In the Bedroom in which Dame Judi Dench dressed up like Sissy Spacek and chain-smoked...