Word: feste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What happened to the "fest" in Springfest? It appears as if the Undergraduate Council won't even be able to top its pathetic performance of last year. The thoroughly mediocre God Street Wine has been replaced by God-knows-who, and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has canned the idea of kegs. The council asked for permission to serve eight kegs throughout the festivities, but Dean Epps only allowed them to serve beer in cans from noon to 3:30 p.m. Worse yet, the administration will forcibly herd drinkers into an area cordoned off from the rest...
...Holy Grail: it refuses to die even though it has no way to support itself. The administration has proved that it will never allocate enough money to buy big-name bands and that it will never relax its alcohol policies enough to allow for a true college-style "fest." And the council seems more preoccupied with fighting the administration over frozen yogurt at Annenberg than with lobbying for better Springfest entertainment...
...Fest Fever...
...business thrive on investors in New York City; New Zealand; Fort Worth, Texas; and Nashville, Tenn.; a globally scattered network of chums from Harvard Business School; ceaseless international E-mail; cell-phone calls from a lawyer named Larry; and Yan's addiction to the jet-set schmooze fest in Davos, Switzerland, each January. "I go to Davos and can talk to Newt Gingrich," enthuses Yan, who indeed seems voluble enough to talk to anyone, quite emphatically, and at any length. "I call him Newt. And I realize we're all the same: the trousers...
...Babylonian backslapping fest that is the Academy Awards has passed again, and 43 people have fetching new doorstops. But after every Oscar ceremony there are folks who won whether or not they took a little gold guy home. People like Peter Fonda. His nomination coincided with the release of his memoir Don't Tell Dad, neatly rescuing it from another-bygone-celebrity-spills-his-guts status. And HELEN HUNT'S agent. Two Emmys and an Oscar really help in renegotiating your client's sitcom contract. Then there's CHER. Just when folks were thinking of her as the late Congressman...