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...orchestrated for the rich, famous and socially stratospheric. Baloun, who attended the American Floral Arts School in Chicago while still a teenager, moved to New York City in 1976 to be a theater director. But instead of working on Broadway, he wound up creating glittering theatrical magic for the soir??e set. Baloun invented a life-size Hungarian town square for financier George Soros' 70th birthday. For a New York City welcome for Prince Charles, Baloun conjured up a forest of trees in a towering tent at Lincoln Center, complete with painted stars on the ceiling. The price...
...Respectable Game Show was a phenomenon of the atomic-age early days of TV, when postwar America embraced the idea of meritocracy and trusted in the best and brightest to conquer space and whup the Russkies. What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth were urbane soir??es, frequented by brainiacs and swells like publisher Bennett Cerf and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle, and quiz shows celebrated academics. Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren...
...intimate party in the Yard than knock on doors in Houses looking for a party that will admit them. Moreover, the belief that freshman parties are doomed from the start just because they are dry is incorrect. Freshmen have been known to attract some older students to their soir??es, and alcohol still makes an appearance at many a freshman bash despite the fact that it is prohibited and not reimbursed...
Though there are no campus-wide restrictions on registering events over the weekend, select Houses will clamp down on private parties to encourage participation in the College-sanctioned soir?...
...press.”Drazba, a defensive tackle, said that he and his teammates believe “everything was overexaggerated and that it was a misunderstanding, that there was no physical violence.” The incident involving Thomas occurred the night of the Senior Soir??e. After the event, Thomas gained entrance to the victim’s unoccupied room by kicking the door down, and was helped to the bed by fullback Michael Lucas ’07, who apparently told witnesses that Thomas was “quite drunk and needed to sleep...