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...garsh... Halloween can be a lonely time too. While your schoolchums are busy doing the Monster Mash at a Mather House bash, or mixing exotic witch's brews in 10-speed blenders and plasticoated cauldrons, you may find yourself all by your lonesome, with nothing to do but nurse a paltry patch of goosepimples...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Syllabus | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

...that matter, you could purchase 100 bleacher tickets at Fenway Park for regular-season games. You and 99 of your closest friends could have an old-fashioned bleacher bash Or, alternatively, you and your closest friend could attend 50 regular-season games--well over half the home games in an entire season...

Author: By Jonatahan Putnam, | Title: The Value of the World Series | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

...same type of twisted logic applies to the recent imbroglio between President Derek C. Bok and Secretary of Education William J. Bennett. Bok invited the guy to a birthday bash, and Bennett ended up swigging some tea and spouting drivel all over his hosts. Bok was left holding the quarter...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha, | Title: Get on the Wagon | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

...waited patiently, playing mumblety-peg and drinking ourselves silly by the mailbox. This was one bash we were not prepared to miss. But the hours went by, day turned into night, cops told us to move on, and still no invites. Stories started turning up in the media about the big do that was going on in Orlando. Our favorite radio station began broadcasting live from there...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Press on the Run | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

While Cinderella's fairy godmother may have materialized a dress out of thin air, real life ballgoers still must go out shopping to find the right clothing to celebrate Harvard's big bash in style...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Looking Your Best For Harvard's Biggest Ball | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

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