Word: patronizer
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...note--varying incessantly and to no great effect on such tired themes as polyester leisure seats and mobile homes--and couldn't capture the audience. Master of Ceremonies Brett Butler tried hard, but was undistinguished. Many of her lines were no better than this one she told to a patron in the front row: "That is some tan you have there--we're talking melanoma city...
...drug use, demand blood-test results and thrust condoms into their hands. Wouldn't it be easier to give up sex altogether and join some religious order?" With a little emendation the same plaint can be made by men. "You think twice," observes a 28-year-old male / patron of Lucy's, a crowded singles bar on Manhattan's West Side. "If sex is too easy, I just won't take...
...smells gives concentration something to work against...other than the whirling fantasies of a studious mind. At the 'Muffin, during those five minute study pauses absolutely necessary for prevention of brain damage, you avoided suffering through the stifled mutters and echoing snuffles of bored undergraduates. Instead, the Bottomless Mug patron can sit back and happily soak in the gentle bustle of cafe life, and then, refreshed, ease back into work...
...They're really good," says Christopher W. Marx '89, a Winthrop House patron. "We get chicken wings more than pizza...
Just as ironic, but more pleasantly so, is that Salieri, that "Patron Saint of Mediocrities," has inspired such an ingenious and engrossing play. The final gem of irony, however, is merely a result of expert casting: Tolins, a sublime Salieri indeed, receives the standing ovation Salieri never deserved...