Word: feasting
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...Eager as rats they scatter through the house, squeaking and plundering, happy as fiends with a rich man's soul. Out come the linens and the candelabra, the rare wines, the cates and dainties, a whole lamb. Like dukes the poor pilgarlics sit them down to a palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths of it, as the rabble bawls and dances, fights and fornicates all over the house, the leper puts a record...
...money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance to a feast...
...conclusion, Logos asserts, "No one expects a Thanksgiving feast every day of the week. However, for $620 a year a person does expect better meals than have been customary this fall, even from an organization as inefficient as the Central Kitchen...
Death's Head. Again that afternoon at 4, at a reception in the vast, new banquet hall atop the Palace of Congresses. Voroshilov appeared, like a death's head at a feast. Wearing row on row of Soviet decorations, as if to say "They can't take that away from me," he stood at a buffet table, nibbling at hors d'oeuvres and glancing frequently at the enclosure where Khrushchev was shaking hands with members of the diplomatic corps. Voroshilov nipped through the gap between tables and joined Anastas Mikoyan and several friends who were obliged...
...Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker's socialist shocker clatters, boils and roars its way through a day in the help's half of a big London restaurant. As dialectic it may be flimsy, but as theater it is a feast...