Word: semi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...16th Century commedia dell' arte tradition. Director Joseph Giani fills the show with characters in brightly colored, Harlequin-style costumes, masks with grotesquely distorted features, troubadours with recorders and guitars, people hitting each other with padded swords, puppets, actors mixing with the audience, and lots of physical, semi-improvisational comedy...
Students who attended the party say that its atmosphere differed from that of other benefit dances, as it was a small semi-formal selective party held at the Hasty Pudding Club...
...annual semi-formal ball at the Charles Hotel only raises a quarter of the budget. Citystep must pay the hotel "a few thousand dollars" for the room and the proceeds from alcohol sales, says Savitz. They must also pay the hotel for drinks if $500 worth has not been purchased...
Questions to Hefner ranged from her personalinvolvement with Playboy to the ethics ofpublishing semi-nude pictures of Vanna White, theletter-flipper on the popular television game showWheel of Fortune. Hefner defended the decision toprint the pictures, even though White objected andhas filed a suit against Playboy
...that Ronald Reagan is in semi-retirement, many gentlemen have begun to come forward to seek the presidency for them-selves--to throw their hats in the ring, as they say, thus revealing their coiffures...