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Word: hostessing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's penchant for allowing liability lawsuits to spin out of control. (Remember the woman who won $1 million from McDonald's because she spilled hot coffee on her lap while driving and then blamed it on the container?) None of us look forward to a world in which Hostess would have to make sure that the public consumed only a healthy number of Twinkies...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: Make Laws, Not Lawsuits | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Hicks: Well, the competition has been held weekly for a few months now. First there is a drag show during which people can sign up for the amateur striptease. After the professionals finish their lip-sync routine, the hostess drag queen announces the seven to 10 audience members that will compete and calls them up one by one. (S) he puts on some thumpy music, usually fuzzy techno but it can be anything appropriate for hip shaking. The contestants begin to dance and disassemble their outfits. Afterwards the hostess dances an extravaganza finale...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: Harvard's Silver-Medalist Stripper | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

Hicks: The audience chooses the winner; after all the amateurs have stripped the hostess decides which contestant received the most and loudest applause. Except for a few randoms who can't leave the bar, the audience is really attentive and sometimes people give money to their favorite performers. The competition usually comes down to a first and second place winner, and the grand prize is $50 from the club...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: Harvard's Silver-Medalist Stripper | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...also enhance the entire production. Alceste's complaints against the hypocrisy of his times may well have come from cynical journalists in the 1920s, so his occupation suits his disposition in the play. Celimene's many lovers are a sign of the fast-moving times, and her role as hostess, a nod to women's greater independence after the War. The most exciting new feature of the play however, comes at the end of the second act. The scene shifts continually from Celimene's apartment to Alceste and Arsinoe. The audience watches Alceste discover Celimene's deception at the same...

Author: By Stephen G. Henry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Moliere Thrives in Jazz Age | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Senior House party hostess Chana R. Schoenberger, who is also a Crimson executive, told FM that nothing really happened except that "strangers were getting it on" in her living room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FM ON FM: PROOF OF OUR IMPORTANCE | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

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