Word: feted
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...poster read “Save a Horse, Ride an Owl Boy.” A Crimson editorial board sophomore dressed in ever-popular Peter Pan garb poked a fellow Ed boarder in the eye while brandishing a plastic sword at the Crimson’s somber Halloween fete. He followed that triumph by yelling at sex blogger Lena Chen “Do you know who I am?” and also “I read your blog.” Bet she’s never gotten that pick-up line before. Some Quincy seniors dressed...
...Nearly everyone at the event knew that the real reason for the fete was not to honor Stone's award from his hometown film festival, but to help launch Paramount's bid to snag Oscar nominations for his recent 9/11 movie World Trade Center. And to launch Hollywood's annual effort to get around Academy rules that try to limit the increasingly aggressive studio campaigns for Oscars...
...Whatever floats your boat—FM doesn’t judge. Scheduled panelist Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ’38, whose book “Cycles of American History” was read (or not read) by high schoolers across the nation, was notably missing from the fete. When asked for her opinion on the Pulitzer Prize winner’s absence, Ashley A.T. Tongret ’00 was unperturbed: “I was just disappointed that Conan O’Brien ’85 wasn’t here...
...Scene” are of a different breed, entirely. They’re like young Cary Grants—they don’t understand the concept of a “women’s center,” but they love to “fete on” attractive Harvard women by cooking them gnocchi. They even attend the Westminster Dog Show and wear “dangerous” ties. How cool is that?The women of “Scene,” although underrepresented in written verbiage, are equally incredible. They only...
...sadistic series of tasks to win the Goblet of Fire—taking the viewer along for a terrifying ride including dragons and carnivorous caverns. Along with these visually rich action scenes are moments of awkward adolescent romance, such as the Yule Ball, an event like Eliot Fete on anabolics, replete with a rave-out performance by the paler members of Radiohead and Pulp.Humor keeps this “Potter” chapter from immersion into tonal darkness, much of it emerging in dialogue invented in the adaptation from J.K. Rowling’s text. Ron breathlessly justifies asking French...