Word: luau
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...horn in the other. Four teams squared off at the MAC Quad for the honor of “top-dog,” outfitted in various themed clothes. The shirtless Sigma Alpha Epsilon Juggernauts sported yellow and purple body paint, the Hawaii Club brought the luau, the Mountaineering Club donned bright yellow t-shirts, and the Outing Club saluted Alaska by substituting the state’s flag for their clothes. A panel of “celebrity judges”—the Adams House masters—judged the sleds first on aesthetic appearance. The teams...
...amount of stuff going on right now.”According to Pollinger, the FYSC has been tossing around several ideas for possible upcoming events, including a Spring Carnival, a male beauty pageant, and theme parties in the Strauss Hall common room. The committee is considering themes like a luau in the middle of the winter and an ABC—Anything But Clothing—party, in which people can attend wrapped in duct tape or newspaper. The FYSC plans to host its first Strauss theme party the weekend after Thanksgiving, Pollinger says. To fund these events, the FYSC...
After all the striving is behind them, the students come together for a last supper, luau-style, around the pool. The instructors present a prime-time package of jokes, comedy routines and songs. There is a hand-holding rendition of We Are the World, and another. And then, as darkness falls over the mountains, 1,000 girls troop inside a small room and start chanting and swaying in unison as U.S.A. Singer-Songwriter Peter Dergee delivers a set just for them. And when, toward the end, Dergee lowers his voice for a love song, there are enough hugs to shame...
Several celebrities christened their newborns with distinctive monikers, from Gwyneth Paltrow's culinary cutie Apple to Helen Hunt's luau-ready Makena Lei to Julia Roberts' retro-inspired twins Phinnaeus and Hazel. What better way to preserve your kid's anonymity? And nothing helps a youngster get along at school like being named after a lunchtime staple...
...nilly by a second round and, worse, by a blizzard of monster concessions to corporate interests. A recent example is instructive: this month Congress hilariously transformed the closing of a $5 billion tax break for exporters, which was required by a World Trade Organization ruling, into a $137 billion luau for special interests, including NASCAR track owners, railroads and makers of fishing-tackle boxes. It used to be that such bills came with matching revenue-raising provisions. Not in this Administration. The President signed the fiasco, as he has every other spending opportunity to reach his desk. This...