Word: shindigs
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...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...
...found and posted his video on the Internet without his permission, the Korean woman had no control over her newfound “fame” and was eventually shunned into dropping out of school. This is a far cry from posting slightly scandalous photographs of a Saturday night shindig on Facebook.com, but the threat to one’s future is just as real. The second half of the book—which functions as the “Here’s the Solution” to the first part’s “Here?...
...that evening as part of its Live! 2007 conference, a gathering of the auction site's devotees. The planned Google celebration devolved into a Boston tea party of sorts, with eBay dropping Google ads in protest of the search engine's party poaching. Google then backed off, canceling its shindig. EBay played it cool, announcing that its ad purchases were halted as part of a routine test of marketing options. Cynics responded that anyone who bought that claim should check to see if eBay might be auctioning off a bridge in Brooklyn...
...Boylston Hall for an Harvard-style Sedianka. It was your typical college party but with less booze and more traditional meat dishes from the old country. Harvard and MIT students alike exchanged handmade yarn dolls and traded in their English names for questionable Bulgarian renditions. But the cultural shindig didn’t really get going until the Bulgarians hit the dance floor. Kaloyan S. Slavov ’07 led a line of experienced Bulgarians and painfully clueless amateurs to the center of the room. In a form somewhat reminiscent of Riverdance, Slavov and his sweaty troupe broke...