Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McInerney's first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, assumed cult status within months of publication. Its second-person narrative, cast of cocaine- fueled yuppies and New York City nightclub scenes had an odd, ironic charm that made some 138,000 buyers eager for his next tale. This time the protagonist has upward immobility but no interest in drugs. In fact, Christopher Ransom, an American drifter in Kyoto, has only one enthusiasm: karate. He hangs out at Hormone Derange, a cowboy store, and tries to regain his spiritual bearings with martial arts. Ransom also wants to avoid memories of a girlfriend...
Though Cabot House's famed jazz nightclub Cookin' will reopen next week, "mixing", as in alcohol, will no longer be a part of the club's ambiance...
However, the reputation of the Quad saloon spread. Performances by popular local bands and the improvisational group "On Thin Ice" packed the basement club wall-to-wall. The intimate nightclub for couples soon turned into what vice president Diane M. Paulus '88 termed "an organized party." Some nights the crowd numbered in the hundreds, and lines formed around Cabot House...
President 'Cookin' Nightclub, Rugby, Winter Track, Drama, H/R Chorus, Environmental work at Mass Pirg...
Despite his declared identification with the literati and his scorn for the "layers upon layers of cheap nightclub hypocrisy," Townshend writes more about cheap sex and drinking bouts than about great ideas or great thinkers...