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...mail accounts, had called for “queers, gays, allies, men, women, queens, dykes, bois, girls, butches, femmes, fairies, fruits, trannies, homosexuals, bisexuals, heterosexuals, drag queens, drag kings, and friends.” These Harvard hopefuls were headed to none other than the famous Dyke Ball, an annual fete of queer debauchery at Wellesley College...
...reality programming--The Real World no longer even pretends to be about real life, and millions of viewers couldn't care less--so The Osbournes takes the fame issue straight on. We catch up with Ozzy and wife manager Sharon primping for the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the annual fete during which the two nerdiest groups of celebrities--politicians and journalists--surround themselves with actual stars to bask in the reflected cool. As George W. Bush gives Ozzy a shout-out from the podium and the Prince of Darkness leads the room in applause for himself, you hope that someone...
...least $250,000 for a May 21 G.O.P. gala honoring President Bush. The group of utilities Barbour was representing, led by Southern Co., gave $150,000 to the event. The night before the gala, Cheney held a glitzy reception at the vice-presidential mansion for hundreds of the fete's sponsors and longtime party donors...
...raising at least $250,000 for a May 21 G.O.P.gala honoring President Bush. The group of utilities Barbour was representing, led by Southern Co., gave $150,000 to the event. The night before the gala, Cheney held a glitzy reception at the vice-presidential mansion for hundreds of the fete's sponsors and longtime party donors...
...Michael Thomas observes in his catalog essay, Koch's world is one of grownups. They congregate in those elegant friendly rooms like the inhabitants of an ideal but real fete champetre within four walls: New York's high bohemia, in mutual recognition. In it, children are rarely seen and subliterates are never heard. The fear, disgust and boredom that are the axial coordinates of American urban life in the 2000s do not appear. People are not afraid of growing older. Ripeness is all. They have not become depressed helots to the culture of ignorant mall rats with Dolby stereos. Nobody...