Word: shindigs
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...likely end up in the common room, all of your private thoughts and feelings unpackaged for all to see. You will be caught in various states of undress by your roommate, and you will always say "Why don't we just go to your room" after that particularly boozy shindig. But there are some nice suite arrangements for upperclassmen where common rooms can finally be used for their intended purposes...
...Marsala, mayor of Atherton, California, the wealthiest zip code in America: "We moved our conversation into the main house, and as we talked Marsala walked me down a hall of famous photographs, many of them of his apparently legendary backyard parties, often showing guests as giant chess pieces. One shindig had a Venetian theme, complete with a gondola, which, in one photo, was being navigated in the pool by the largest shareholder of General Electric. 'He collects army tanks,' Marsala said, shaking his head and chuckling, as if the man collected scrimshaw or hermit crabs. 'He has about two hundred...
...former Law School employee currently working at the Divinity School who crashed the party last year. “It’s pretty opulent by Harvard standards.”Nor is the party at the Harvard Business School a shabby affair. Last year’s shindig featured holiday decor anchored by a reindeer ice sculpture, according to Elizabeth Sweeny, a faculty assistant at the Business School.“I remember thinking initially, that’s like a pretty plastic thing, and oh, wait, no, actually, that’s made...
...quick personal anecdote to illustrate this danger can be seen in my interactions only a few weekends ago. Through mutual contacts, I found myself in the room of a blocking group of teammates from one of the sports for which I cheer. I made my way around the little shindig, becoming “introduced” to each of the inhabitants, one of whom I recognized instantly for the rather nice reception he’d made a few games prior. Instead of commending him, however, I chose to mispronounce his name, acting as if I hadn?...
...covered like the [soccer] FA Cup now, no other festival is treated that way," says Paul Stokes, news editor of British music weekly the NME. The hippie shindig that became a celebration of counterculture is now as established a fixture on the British social calendar as Wimbledon. When the BBC broadcasts live coverage of the festival over three channels, online and on several radio stations, it's hard to maintain the mystery of alt-cachet. After last year's Glastonbury, Stokes wrote an editorial in the NME saying the atmosphere at the event was suffering as young people sought...