Word: mixer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressive display of peaceful coexistence. To realize that the same men who "joke" about pig feast may be the guys through the fire door, is to feel suddenly ill at case among what was thought to be a family of sorts. In a moment, it's Harvard as Freshman Mixer all over again...
They also don't seem to mind reliving events that couldn't have been much fun in undergraduate days. A crowded, brightly-lit dance in Memorial Hall Sunday night featured a third-rate swing band and bore a resemblance to an awkward freshman mixer. But for these post-freshmen, having to line up, steer-like, in black tie and gowns to board yellow school buses to take them to the Park Plaza was probably made less noxious by the sign in one of the bus windows: "Very Important People...
Sound Designer Ben Burtt devised a new language for the Ewoks, as he did for all the creatures with speaking parts. Ewokese, for example, is a combination of five tongues, including Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali. All were garbled together in Burtt's sound mixer. When it came time to compose an Ewokese anthem, Burtt could do it without the mixer. "By that time," he jokes, "I could speak Ewokese myself...
...came. She wore. She conquered. Triumphantly, Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, turned the four-week, 15,000-mile royal tour of Australia into one long fashion show-cum-mixer. Last week, with plenty of fresh outfits at the ready, Diana, with Prince Charles, 34, and ten-month-old Prince William, proceeded to New Zealand, but not before the princess gave Australia a little something to remember her by. At a royal ball at Melbourne's Hilton hotel, she stopped conversation dead by making her entrance in a shimmery, ice-gray gown cut daringly deep across one shoulder. At Auckland...
...control in the audience, anyway. Numerous bottles of bubbly have been carried into the house after the intermission, and there is much merriment Behind me, a sloshed woman loudly asks her escort to explain a pun "What's that mean--penis?" At one poirt, cries of "Freshman Mixer" and "Buzz Aldren!" go up. In the center section, guest-of-honor Steven Spielberg, the Pudding's newly crowned Man of year, looks mildly bewildered. E.T., after all never had too deal with alumni...