Word: bashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like the host of any successful bash that at times came close to getting out of hand, the Soviet Union spent last week dealing with the confetti -- literal and symbolic -- generated by its just ended 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference. Moscow street workers pulled down the festive red bunting and banners that had decorated the Soviet capital during the conference's four days of extraordinarily open debates and disputes. More substantively, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened the 13 voting members of the ruling Politburo, who in turn scheduled a plenum of the 307-member policymaking Central Committee for later...
Moreover, they state, they all have similar ideas of what constitutes a good time. All prefer a movie or show to a beer bash, and all confess to a passion for a good game of bridge. "We go to lots of movies, dinners and shows together," Stone says. And in the process of spending time together, he adds, "we've certainly washed off on each other...
Until the artist's death last year, after gallbladder surgery, the extent of his hoard had largely been a secret. As compulsive consumers go, he was inconspicuous. An old pal, Collector Suzie Frankfurt, once noticed a slight bulge under his shirt at a Studio 54 bash: it was a dazzling emerald necklace. Yet Warhol's opulent town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side was so cluttered with the fruits of his shopping binges that only two or three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster...
Although only Winthrop House residents saw this week's performance of Antonin Artaud's Jet of Blood, the group plans to go to every house to perform a variety of short plays. Next week will feature Mish Mash Bash, and eventually, says Weiner, the group will build up a repertory of plays, switching scripts from room to room...
Last came two days of slaloms, short, twisting, violent races. Racers wearing heavily padded gloves and shin protectors charge straight at hinged flag gates and bash them aside. Schneider took a slim lead after the first run but fretted that she had been too passive. She is a country mouse from the tiny village of Elm, who at 13 quit school and competitive skiing to keep house after her mother died. She lists her hobby as knitting. Now she psyched herself into a fury, slugged gates like a boxer on her second run and won her second gold, ahead...