Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First came TV dinners, then pantyhose and now the ultimate cocktail convenience: wine and cheese, all in one bottle, and environmentally sound to boot...
...raise their glasses in a toast, so does just about everyone in the audience. Wooroo! Such synchronized celebrations take place nightly at a growing number of movie bars in the South and Northeast, where patrons may chase a good flick-or drown a bad one-with beer, wine or cocktails. Seated in executive-style leather swivel chairs ranged around butcher-block cocktail tables, customers have only to beckon a waitress for refills or to order sandwiches. They manage thus to combine the comforts of home with the fillip of a night out. Indeed, sipping cinemas may be a shot...
...Crimson ran a lengthy investigative article on "Bicker," the club-selection process at Princeton that smacked of the worst of elitism. Twenty-some years later, Bicker is still alive, although the years have eroded some of its worst offenses. Following are excerpts from "The Quest at Princeton for the Cocktail Soul," by John E. McNees '60, and an update on the system by Elizabeth W. McCarthy...
...Assembly refused to endorse the El Salvador candlelight march despite polls showing student support and some 1400 signatures on petitions. The committee concerned did not "have tiem" to debate the merits and demerits of the struggle in El Salvador. Apparently, obtaining toilet paper for the river houses and throwing cocktail parties at 33 Dunster Street are the Assembly's biggest credits...
...pressurized to a normal earth atmosphere so the astronauts will be able to wear comfortable cotton coveralls for most of the trip. Young and Crippen will sleep in their cockpit seats, tote along an electric food warmer to heat up freeze-dried and other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young, who had to make do with the hoses and plastic bags aboard the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, will probably be particularly...