Word: kool
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When house tutors told the D.J. to stop the music for the purpose of crowd control, partygoers continued to sing "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang...
...swoop in to seduce the candidate, caroming among five different campaigns, calling from a pay phone and needing the big guy now. "He's like a cult leader," says Stuart Stevens, a Dole media consultant who once worked with Morris. "The client has to get in there, drink the Kool-Aid and look him in the eye, get the whole mystical connection going...
...have survived were it not for Lieut. Colonel Madan K.C., a Nepalese helicopter pilot. Choppers seldom venture above 6,000 meters: at a certain height, the thin air reduces their lift. Yet Madan flew up to a giant cross the climbers had painted on the Everest ice with red Kool-Aid. There he hovered, runners just touching the snow's treacherous surface, as Gau was loaded on board. Madan flew Gau down to the base camp, then repeated the process with Weathers. It was the second-highest helicopter rescue in history...
...finale production number revealed more second-hand material. Significant plagiarism of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming" and Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" blemished the score, previously marked only by a humorous reference to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. The orchestra seemed weary as well, though its strong rhythm section pushed onwards...
...fermented fruit? Ah, yes, the joys of pre-frosh weekend. We recall the Scarlet Folders (so shameful!, the endless self-introductions, the relentless lines at the Union, the roving packs of frustrated party-seekers, the foamy keg in Matthews, the Greys party's recycling bin filled with vodka and Kool-Aid...and that's all we remember...