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Word: ducking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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About three months later, I found myself in the thick of Ladies' Night at the Hungry Duck. In theory, I should not have seen this part of the evening--Ladies' Night means that women get in and drink free until 9 p.m. while men are not even allowed in the bar. At nine, the bar opens its doors to a limited number of salivating males. As patron Eliot Hodge `02 explains, "Ladies' night at the Duck is basically a form of free prostitution...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: From Russia With Love | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...live sex show on the bar involving one of the patrons may be too much even for the Hungry Duck, but not by much. On a typical night, so many people dance on the bar it is hard to see the bartenders. Stripteases occur spontaneously, leaving women in various states of undress. The male patrons, many of them foreign businessmen and American servicemen, shuffle along the beer-soaked floor, ogling and groping the women, waiting for one to respond favorably, or to tumble off the bar and into their arms. At the Duck, the hormones flow as freely...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: From Russia With Love | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...threat of the spectacle of an old woman humiliating herself is not the most severe danger confronting patrons of the Duck. While I was waiting to meet Melissa, a group of men in sunglasses and leather jackets brusquely walked into the bar. I later found out that they had been in a vicious barfight with the bouncers a few weekends before, and were now meeting to see what would be done about...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: From Russia With Love | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Hungry Duck owner Steele recently told Russia Review magazine that he spends about $500,000 a year on his "roof," from paying off the local police precinct to buying the higher-up connections in the militia and the FSB (the main successor organization to the KGB). Since he has to spend another $500,000 a year to protect his other bar, the quieter Chesterfield's, Steele loses 10 to 20 percent of his annual profits just to the "interests...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: From Russia With Love | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

Rumors constantly circulate that the Duck will be shut down. A recent advertisement, though, stresses that the rumors are not true: "NO the Duck is NOT closing!!! It lives and continues to be just plain crazy, stupid bar!!!" The tone of the ad matches the place itself: reminiscent of a simpler age when women were simply paid for in goats and dragged off by their hair. If the ad is to be believed, The Hungry Duck will be serving up its uniquely orgiastic take on glasnost for years to come...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: From Russia With Love | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

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