Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realize art isn't dead, that it is part of the community in which we live...[If] you force people into seeing art, they'll enjoy it, it will speak to them and become real. Art should serve a political and cultural function for everyone--it's not just cocktail talk. Art shouldn't be aristocratic, this is a socializing and democratizing process...
...share of attention by converting Commencement into a contest of stentorian argumentation, essentially spoiling it for the rest of us who just wish to provide the happy and dignified send-off that the class of 1993 deserves. They also wish to increase their share of resources to fund a cocktail-lounge where they can study and be studied...
...about him privately for years: he has a tendency to explode at the people around him. There are many offenses Gomes lists in his lawsuit, including using the company's contractors and its jet for personal reasons; routinely harassing female employees; ordering executives to obtain the phone numbers of cocktail waitresses; and referring to blacks, and employees in general, as "niggers." The lawsuit also addresses the infamous Wynn outbursts, as in the time he "started becoming very upset with a casino executive, and . . . his eyes bulged, and he started screaming at the top of his lungs and banging his head...
...Democrats were bought and paid for just like Republicans by farm interests," Brown said. "Farm workers don't have tuxedos, so they can't go to $1000 cocktail parties, so they're out of the game...
Finally, there is no reason why the Council should try to take on the characteristics of a sovereign governmental body. It should work altruistically as an agent for students' wishes, not as a breeding ground for future Washington cocktail party cannon fodder. Hopefully, no more of these substanceless, money-wasting ads will appear. Council members spend too much time worrying about their political images, and not enough time finding out what students really want...