Word: mardy
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...life at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in northern China's Shanxi province, while next February a major new work, My Generation, commissioned by Australia's National Portrait Gallery and based on the Sydney art scene of the 1970s and '80s, will be unveiled as part of Sydney's Mardi Gras. (See pictures of the gay rights movement...
...mystery that the 1986 New York Mets were a wild bunch. "When the Mets came to your town it was like Mardi Gras," you write. "The clubs would be packed, waiting for us to roll in. Guys wanted to get next to us and buy us drinks or take us into the men's room and lay out a few rails of coke . . .The only hard part for us was choosing which hottie to take back to your hotel room." You include a couple of anecdotes about your own sexual trysts. Why share that detail? Because it's the truth...
...same zeitgeist made gambling ubiquitous: until the late '80s, only Nevada and New Jersey had casinos, but now 12 states do, and 48 have some form of legalized betting. It's as if we decided that Mardi Gras and Christmas are so much fun, we ought to make them a year-round way of life. And we started living large literally as well as figuratively. From the beginning to the end of the long boom, the size of the average new house increased by about half. Meanwhile, the average American gained about a pound a year, so that an adult...
What’s more, Cabot’s main House-wide party, Mardi Gras, pales in comparison to those thrown by neighboring Currier and Pfoho. This year, the event attracted more security staff and bartenders than students – I guess Chex-mix and DJ Strauss no longer pull in the crowd they used...
...Asian health issues are remotely related to Mardi Gras is clearly not the point...