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...unavoidable contact with the actors, each of whom takes time away from the onstage performance to torment those sitting in the audience. A warning to prospective theatergoers: If you’re an attractive young woman sporting a little cleavage, the priest is likely to help tuck your dinner napkin into the top of your low-cut dress. Men of consenting age will be unable to avoid Joey’s gay cousin Carmine, a man whose distinctive talents include folding napkins into ornate phalluses and placing them on the laps of those made most visibly uncomfortable by his advances...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fughettabout Good Taste, Enjoy Good Fun | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

...wanna be stereotyped, I wanna be classified” at face value. Compare, if you will, the biting social criticism of Milo Auckerman with Gob’s wet-napkin approach to punk: “How I long to see your eyes / Your eyes fill me up I breathe them inside / I have your image deep inside of me / I hold your picture it’s a part...

Author: By D. ROBERT Okada and Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Elevator Punk: Going Down | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

Lift your napkin, wipe your chin, and above all, protect your pants...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Learn Fine Art of Interview Dining | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

...addition to food-related problems, the napkin holders are a source of frustration for Nikonchuk, who is also a Crimson editor...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Work With HUDS TO Improve Quincy Dining Hall | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

Etiquette experts say the best way to get children to exercise good table manners during the holiday season is to practice them at home. Says Carol Wallace, author of Elbows Off the Table, Napkin in the Lap, No Video Games During Dinner: "Table manners are just skills, and parents should start teaching their children when they're really young--knowing that it's not always going to be pretty." Children as young as four can learn how to set the table and pick up the basic elements of cutlery. Kids should be expected to sit fairly still in a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Manners | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

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