Word: merriment
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...becomes more and more frantic, a band of folk musicians bursts in and strikes a chord of wild merriment. A fifty-minute rollercoaster ride then takes the viewer flying through a fantastic world of organic self-renewal and disintegration...
...meaningfully “international” community would recoil instinctively from such a plainly ignorant distortion—one that imputes the reputation of a murderous regime to police officers who had merely asked students for their IDs, quickly learned that their gathering was legitimate, and let the merriment continue unabated. The comparison is no more intelligent, and every bit as obnoxious, as the National Rifle Association’s occasional invocation of the Third Reich’s plentiful gun control laws to make its case for gun rights in America...
...They faced plenty of obstacles: the rude public merriment at their pairing; all the misery the Vatican-cowed Italian government tried to bring to their joint political, financial and personal life; the stories of his infidelities and of the movie stars (Cary Grant, Peter Sellers) utterly smitten by her allure. Yet Ponti and Loren persevered, becoming a metaphor for the lasting attraction of opposites...
...their way into the human cortex. Before the summer session begins, she blesses her camp's fairly sophisticated audio-visual system to make certain the devil doesn't get into it and make it go blooey at some inopportune moment. One of the high points of the week's merriment is the introduction of a life-size cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush, which is frankly treated as if it was something like a communion's wine and wafers - a transubstantiation of a living...
...improved College rules for underage drinking, the result of College negotiations with the Boston Police Department (BPD). The College has declared that, this year, students and student groups will no longer be allowed to bring any alcohol to the official tailgate at Ohiri Field; the only source of merriment will be spiked hot chocolate and beer served to students 21 and older with ID at three College-sanctioned stalls. If you’re visibly drunk, don’t even bother trying to enter: You’re not welcome...