Word: drunkenness
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...really being obnoxious,” Ms. Mannersmith explains. Adopting a rah-rah spirit is all very well, but “questioning people’s mothers’ marital status,” Ms. Mannersmith says, is definitely an etiquette no-no. And even if the drunken Yalies do the same, Ms. Mannersmith espouses the moral high ground. “When it gets nasty, ignore it and move away...
...circulating selections from the Dine at Nine bar menu—yes, people come here to drink, too. The idea of dropping $7-14 on bar snacks might seem a little absurd, even here, until you contemplate Harvest’s particular conception of what should be served to drunken rich people: chicken fried oysters with Napa slaw and French quarter remoulade; tempura of yellowfin tuna sashimi with wakame, Oregon wasabi and aged shoyu; duck confit quesadilla with jack cheese, scallion and avocado salsa. We manage to snag samples of the last two, though the delectable sashimi mysteriously stops being...
...principal kudos are due to the accomplished Scheib, whose ability to orchestrate multiple points of action and complicated shifts in blocking is well-nigh incredible. The play’s lengthy first scene, in which the duke and his comrades carouse and otherwise raise drunken hell, is absolutely enthralling, and Scheib’s consistent ability to maintain plenty of plausible onstage activity never flags. Not surprisingly, the play’s simplest scene—a dialogue which two characters conduct entirely on their knees on an otherwise empty stage—is the play’s weakest...
Those in favor of upholding the foul language argue it falls under the category of free speech, or at least speech that is expected of stressed-out students blowing off drunken steam on the weekends...
Overheard at the Harvard State University party: Student One— “Maxwell, if only I had long ago perceived the boon of state education, in all of its drunken, gyrating glory, I might have matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania! Student Two—“Here, here ol’ chap, three cheers for the welfare state...