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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...remember with affection the unruly passions of youth," he said Monday in Meridian, Miss., where he once helped organize an off-base toga party - the furniture swapped out for mattresses - for his military buddies and some local girls. On Tuesday, he returned to his Virginia high school to announce that his frequent disobedience earned him the nickname "worst rat." (He used to sneak away to hop a bus to Washington, D.C., for the burlesque houses and bars.) On Wednesday morning, he stood outside the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., where he spoke of his "nocturnal sojourns" beyond those school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain: Loving His Misspent Youth | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...director’s note, Chase-Levenson emphasized that “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place!” transcends every time period. Jessica C. Coggins ’08 enacted that universality in her decisions as costume designer, dividing the cast between toga-wearing characters like Demokos, who have succumbed to the determinism of fate, and advocates for peace who wear modern clothing. Although this was a promising concept, its execution muddled already complicated scenes and distracted from Giraudoux’s message...

Author: By Eric M. Sefton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Trojan War’ Has Argument For Peace | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...That might be a blessing in the early scenes, which have as much peeing and belching as a PG-13 rating will allow, and where the strangely Shrekish-looking Hrothgar staggers about drunkenly in a toga that is ever in danger of slipping off his mammoth body. It also takes a while to grow accustomed to the faces of Hrothgar, his wife Wealthow (Robin Wright Penn) and the oily counselor Unferth (John Malkovich). The faces have lines and creases, but they don't look lived in. This quibble subsides when Beowulf appears. The political drama of the palace is instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beowulf and Grendel — and Grendma | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...Authentic Toga Party: Those grants will buy you a lot of bedsheets, grapes, Roman laurels, and at least two nubile slave girls from the tribes along the R. Volga...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, Nicola C. Perlman, and Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 15 Parties We Can Have | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...your cowboy boots and get in line for some dancin’. Sponsored by the Folk Arts Center of New England (inspiring impromptu line dances since 1975). 7:30-10:30 p.m. Concord Scout House, 74 Walden Street, Concord, Mass. Free (western outfit not required). 4) TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! It’ll be just like “Animal House.” Except, it won’t be as fun or wild. But there will be togas! And that’s all one can ask for, really. Lowell is having a Toga Party; hopefully it?...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Get Out! | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

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