Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many students deride these survey courses as "cocktail party courses," implying that their only purpose is to give a thumbnail, Cliff Notes version of the particular subject. The charge is valid. It is important to have more than a shallow understanding of important subjects--but you have to start somewhere...
Whether or not vertically-challenged females should don stiletto heels in order to ensnare potential mates, heels with the potential to spear cocktail olives do have the potential to make the person wearing them feel attractive. Are the piercing podiatric pulsations are worth it? You've endured the anguish of orthodontic appliances for your beautiful smile. Think of stiletto heels as braces for your feet...
...very least, if you read Maribuana Reconsidered, you can arm yourself with a few useful sets of statistics and some interesting cocktail party factoids. For instance, the sacred plant was so useful that Henry VIII required its cultivation by English farmers, and George Washington himself had a crop...
...propaganda and battlefield reports can't fill an entire broadcast day. The rest of Lighthouse TV's schedule is a wildly disjunctive cocktail of prayers and quiz shows, Egyptian sitcoms, jingle-filled ads for imported detergents and computer-generated graphics of holy men. General manager Ahmad, who abandoned a career as a mechanical engineer to join Hizballah, thinks he can "participate in the resistance" as well as turn a buck. He claims Lighthouse ranks fifth among some 50 Lebanese TV stations, and that advertising provided a third of last year's budget...
Lanier is in familiar territory: he is widely considered to be the father of virtual reality. Though his name is not yet common fare on the cocktail-party circuit of the cultural elite, he is a star of an astoundingly energized new movement of musicians and visual artists who are defining and redefining their work through the use of cybertechnology. ``The computer is now an accepted tool,'' says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. ``In the art world, it is no longer an issue.'' From the fashionably bohemian precincts of lower Manhattan to London...