Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show, produced by Don Mischer, performed by a cast of 5,500 and watched by 3 billion viewers worldwide, mixed Southern with Greek, pyrotechnics with Pindar, avant-garde with antebellum, pickup trucks with riverboats, the gargantuan with the precious. Like Atlanta, it desperately wanted to be liked by everybody, and it succeeded. The Call to the Nations, which opened the show, recalled both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John...
...roommate, who is the only intern at the place where she works, swore I'd be thrilled to have such constructive events. I couldn't think of anything worse. I'd gone to the Grille a few too many times, so the watering hole pickup scene was not too appealing. I'd grown up in Baltimore, so the monuments were the stuff of my junior high field trips. Excuses aside, I was afraid of this thing called Culture, doubting I'd fit the bill. I couldn't imagine having to pick out a skirt in the morning that was long...
...Block the Internet Relay Chat channel innocently named #nancy (in reality an S&M pickup spot), as well as the famously steamy #hottub channel...
Despite a career spent in government, colleges and think tanks, Miller portrays himself as the pickup-driving, gun-owning Virginian whose onetime political benefactor betrayed the state's true Republican principles. "Two years ago," Miller tells Republican audiences, "John Warner stabbed this party in the back and now expects this party to raise him on its shoulders. That is wrong!" His fund-raising letter describes Warner as a Beltway insider more likely to be "dining at the elegant Palm restaurant in Washington with liberal TV 'journalist' Barbara Walters than testing his hunting rifle." That is Miller's way of reminding...
Hanson's friends, though all from Minnesota, attend a variety of schools around the country, ensuring that the book is not too Harvard-oriented for its intended audience. Some elements of college life, after all, are universal. What student has not wanted a handy list of pickup lines for the laundry room? Hanson provides a few: "Hey, baby, what's your setting?" Or perhaps: "Are you feeling dizzy? 'Cause you been tumbling through my head...