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...Brazilians, who discovered Miami with a vengeance two years ago, now jokingly call it "Brazil's fastest growing city." Last year they were so ubiquitous that Portuguese became the predominant language among shopkeepers in downtown Miami. This year it is the Argentines who have arrived in droves. "At any cocktail party in South America, if you mention Aventura or Dadeland, they know you're talking major shopping malls in Miami," says economist Manuel Lasaga, a Cuba-born immigrant...
...Frank O'Hara was the funniest man in the universe. Never ever met anybody so funny, with his putdown epigrams. I knew Frank very well. We were in Eliot together, and he gave the best parties in Eliot. Big cocktail parties. Everybody drank all the time back then. We used to have these teas inviting people and it was just pitchers of martinis. We didn't have any beer; it was just martinis. When Dylan Thomas came, he didn't like martinis, he didn't like gin. He said it was the sort of thing made in a chemistry...
...Would you care for a cocktail...
Many of the stories involved Director of Expository Writing Richard C. Marius and his penchant for unpredictability in hiring and firing. Marius, former Expos teachers told The Crimson, would often hire writers as Expos teachers after meeting them at cocktail parties. Marius ran across one teacher-to-be at the baggage claim of San Francisco International Airport, former teachers...
...protection is the real threat to civilization. Mansfield's evaluation of the worth of gay lives is moronic, but more crucially, it's irrelevant to the issue of whether they should be protected as citizens. Homosexuals do not demand rights based on their contributions to anything--the arts, a cocktail party or civilization. They base their demands on the same weathered premise as everyone else: a free society's commitment to giving equal protection to its members...