Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail asking you to join the club, become one of us, a member of the fellowship of educated men and women, a student at America's premier university. How could you refuse that certificate with your name in stately calligraphy, your own invitation to a four-year cocktail party with the best and brightest...
Orientation week is a seven-day cocktail party. It's a homework-free romp through the Yard. It's an opportunity to bond with geniuses who got 1600s on their SATs and roommates who snorkle, write award-winning poetry and splice genes in their free time. It's along, strange trip that's completely forgotten a month later...
...Friday night, first-years get a look at oneof Harvard's stranger phenomenons, the a capellajam. The performance goes something like this: acapella group performs a funny skit. Audiencemembers laugh and wish they, too, could weartuxedos and black cocktail dresses and be funny. Acapella group sings song with lots of ba-ba-basounds and harmonizing. Audience members applaudand wish they, too, could wear tuxedos and blackcocktail dresses and sing well. A capella groupsencourage first-years to go to auditions...
...daringly Roseanne's version will veer from Cybill, or another failed AbFab knockoff called High Society, remains to be seen. Even if the wry, raunchy cocktail is watered down, the original Edina and Patsy will still be lurking somewhere in the cable universe, with plenty of fans to toast them...
...less relevant, judgments to pass. Chief among them is this: Braveheart is too much, too late. Gibson, who directs himself in Randall Wallace's screenplay, starts with certain disadvantages vis-e-vis Rob Roy: Sir Walter Scott never wrote a novel about William Wallace, and no one named a cocktail after him either. Got a real name-recognition problem here. Got a real length problem too. Braveheart runs almost three hours, and though it's full of incident, including several big and expertly staged battle sequences, it really doesn't have enough on its mind to sustain our full attention...