Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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King was not the only candidate partying for the presidency: Blake, a five-semester council member, launched his presidential campaign with a cocktail party for student leaders last week...
...pretentious and over-educated,the novel, in keeping with the spirit of its(anti)hero, is at heart an ever-so-slightlydoddering, luscious, highly sexualized andself-satirical backwards glance at a ratherunremarkable life of letters. His absolutelysucculent, if somewhat condescending descriptionsof leggy, perpetually nude women aside, Updikeexcels in dialogue, cocktail party dialogue, rifewith the sarcastic, incisive mental commentary ofBech. Some of the most revealing scenes in Bechat Bay are to be found in his alwaysflirtatious interactions with women and hisusually acrimonious, acute observations on theposturing of the men he encounters. We read histhoughts, and experience Bech and his worldmediated through...
...from the opposite sex, there may be nothing that mixes exhilaration and frustration quite like the Internet. Sure, we can drink from the world's biggest cup of knowledge, but for most of us, slow computer modems make it feel like we're sipping a chocolate shake through a cocktail straw...
...chemically dependent you have become, and how you encourage (some underage) vulnerable college students to partake in your sinful routine. Something must be done immediately to stop this Martini Madness [vol. 10, no.1]. From beer-gulping Hashers to "getting blitzo" HOC-weekend bar hopping, to the proffered cocktail recipes of A Tradition of Remarkable Drinking the evidence of your debauchery, as it were, is manifold [vol.10,no.2,4,6 respectively]. At least you've overcome denial but it seems that you almost flaunt your membership in the Grafton Street and Central Square pub-crawling crew. We acknowledge the many pressures...
...these traits would seem to make Podesta an odd choice for a job that consists of keeping peace in the brawling White House and selling its products to the outside world. Until now, Podesta rarely showed up on Washington's two big power circuits: on TV or at cocktail parties. He doesn't have cable TV in his home, and the show he worships is The X-Files...