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...more than 200 rooms, and guests are pampered with decorator interiors, extra pillows, and lemon soap. Guests can also expect good New England cooking in the dining room (lobster pie, clam chowder, homemade bread, Indian pudding) and special celebrations on Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mardi Gras, and the twelve days of Christmas, when several Treadways feature a boar's head, suckling pig and medieval carolers. Yet Treadway, where it counts, is very much up-to-date: the ten-story Treadway Inn at Niagara Falls (see MODERN LIVING) is an all-electric motel in which...
...risks department, which has branches in 16 cities. Under McKerrow, Continental has insured a railroad against any harm that might be caused by two Siberian tigers being shipped to a St. Paul zoo, also insured members of a private New Orleans club against excessive bodily harm caused by the Mardi Gras festivities. Luck and nerve as well as experience are important, but Continental generally shuns such risks as traveling carnivals, stunt pilots and amateur parachutists. "We don't make snap decisions," says McKerrow. "We sit here for hours and discuss how to fix a rate, how to determine...
...swooped together to the ricky-tick tempo of an 18-piece band playing Dixieland. Fireworks sparked near the roof girders, and a family-trade crowd of 4,320 oohed and aahed. This was the finale of the Holiday on Ice show's first night in Indianapolis-a Mardi Gras production number...
Rechy's hero is a stud hustler who roams this world familiarly in Manhattan's Times Square and Greenwich Village, in Los Angeles' Pershing Square, and in the French Quarter in New Orleans (Mardi gras is Queersville, of course, because queens can wear their highest drag). It is a dreary world where the aberrant have made, and live by, their own conventions. Perhaps the dreariest part of it is not that so much of its business is transacted in the men's rooms of subway stations. It is that the homosexuals Rechy writes about...
Carnival in Rio is the wildest, the biggest, the craziest mass blast in the world. There are no other contenders, say the cariocas. New Orleans' Mardi Gras? That is for the tourists. The Riviera? Fine, if you like floats. Valencia? Nice fireworks and bullfights. Fasching? Mostly indoors-besides, those Germans get conscience stricken and go home at dawn...