Word: shindig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget about all those snazzy houses and all those famous folks. Hank and Willie and Waylon and other "outlaws" of the '70s have suddenly become -- no, could it be? -- the older generation in country music. The Crowell shindig is right where the action in country music has moved: the crossroads. There has been a lot of traffic there lately, at the delicate junction where country meets its past, sizes up its future and -- probably most important -- guns its musical motor and goes off in its own direction. And Crowell, a wonderfully gifted songwriter and rambunctious performer, isn't even driving...
...rough-and-rollicking stereotype of Calgary has been created, in large part, by the summer shindig known as the Calgary Stampede, a major stomp on the rodeo circuit that has been drawing revelers since 1912. Some citizens would like to shuck that image. "People think of Calgary as a town full of red-neck, capitalist cowboys driving Cadillacs," complains Rod Love, who works in the mayor's office. "We are the financial and technical capital of Western Canada." There is a stock exchange and a contingent of high-tech companies to back up that claim. There is even a mayor...
While my date trekked back for supplies to the Pro, I decided to check out the private shindig that Archie Epps was throwing. I went up to the burly security guards and screamed "I'm Secretary William Bennet! There are drugs on campus! Find them!" By the time the guards figured out what was going on, I was already inside...
Organizers have dubbed the four-day 350th birthday party a "family affair," but don't let their anti-climactic, homespun rhetoric fool you. This shindig has been in the works for over six years and will cost the University well over $1 million. The Prince of Wales and the Boston Pops will be there, even if President Ronald Reagan will not. And up to 40,000 or so undergraduates, alumni and friends of the College will be wined, dined, enlightened and entertained when they descend upon the Yard during the first week of September to take part...
...lower price to attend the reunion--$480 per couple--but their events cost Harvard less to run and their donations this year have dwarfed the reunions' costs. The Class of '36 has forked over $2.4 million to the College Fund; Harvard will treat them to a $180,000 shindig this week...