Word: mardi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 1,100 Senators, Congressmen, major and minor office holders and society folk trooped into the annual Mardi Gras thrown by the Louisiana State Society and captained by Louisiana's Senator Russell Long. They little expected the zip and zeal with which ebullient Russ Long enveloped them-particularly since he had invited them to bring their own liquor. But as they crowded around 96 tables under a ceiling billowing in balloons and confetti, the din raced into high decibels...
Pasha Pants. First came the Mardi Gras traditional "Mystic Krewe"-70 men dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and cloak. Then 26 pretty Louisiana "queens" - Yambilee (i.e., yams) Queen, Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon...
...average modern academic Easterner's ultra-romanticization of the "Back to the Woods" movement, Dartmouth does not have to exaggerate the Carnival's attractiveness too greatly. It is claimed to be the "Mardi Gras of the North" and "A truly college, all college week-end--the biggest, coldest, and certainly the best-known in the world." It is certainly not the best college weekend in the country, that of the University of Colorado, for instance, being much better, but it does attract better looking women than the average Cambridge weekend...
...rating of any daytime show. Boasts Wood: "We have made more people conscious of what's in America than anything else on the air." By its very nature, WWW is in love with big effects. But some of its best moments have been small ones. The New Orleans Mardi gras parade seemed lifeless compared to the efforts of a few deaf children in Baltimore to comprehend the rhythms of music through their fingertips. Sometimes, the nation does not look quite the way the TVmen think it should. For a 30-second shot in Weekiwachee, WWW moved in and planted...
...days and two nights the steel-bands played on without pause. In the late hours of mardi gras, bone-weary celebrants sat on curbstones, heads in arms, waiting for transportation home. But still, here and there, a clanking, humming steel-band could be heard, and its dancing members still wore expressions that seemed to say: this is our day, and this is the music that truly belongs to us. When midnight struck, the music stopped, and Trinidad's steelbands vanished from the streets for another year...