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College “Jeopardy!” semi-finalist...
...just about the time when Broadway ceased to matter as a thriving popular art form. The 50s were the musical's last semi-golden age, the last decade of shows that are still lodged in the popular memory. "Guys and Dolls," "The King and I," "The Pajama Game," "Damn Yankees," "Bells Are Ringing," "My Fair Lady," "West Side Story," "The Music Man," "Gypsy," "The Sound of Music" - these were vital works of popular art, all quickly made into big-time movies. Revivals? Who needed revivals to get people humming tunes from the shows they'd just seen? Each of these...
...Shortly after, a gaggle of Abercrombie-clad women make an entrance and Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” blares from the stereo. Captain Morgan flows freely and the conversation turns to the oversized Head of the Charles poster on the wall and the semi-illegal methods through which it was acquired. Discussion of covert nocturnal pole-climbing ensues, which, as the offending party explains, “is very easy when you are lanky and drunk.” Suddenly, a boy bursts in wearing nothing but Ralph Lauren briefs...
...parties involving drunken semi-nudity generally are, this one is broken up at 10 p.m. by the dreaded proctor. Fisher and his friends wait out in the Yard while the Stoughton roommates meet with their proctor. They emerge as vanquished heroes soon afterwards, off the hook but under obligation to meet with their assistant dean of freshmen the following week for a talk on “mutual respect.” “That’s freshman year for you,” one guy says, shrugging. “It’s all about trying...
...festivities members of the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine dressed in full tuxedos, bedecked with medals. They ambled about in front of their castle, crushing extinguished Budweiser cans and handing out Oreos to passersby...