Word: waltz
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...formals, which are being held at locations ranging from the Children's Museum to the dance club Europa, kicked off with the Adams House waltz, "The Mask of Red Death," last Saturday...
There were other occasions, of course. An evening of dark Bacardi and Southern Comfort, gulped from miniature porcelain teacups in Grays, for example. As a first-year I played a certain House's waltz with a certain orchestra, and when the champagne ran out a certain master offered some of his own stock with the caveat, "Just don't tell anyone where...
...similar waltz the following year led to more dire consequences. The tastes of that certain orchestra had surpassed champagne to more concentrated pleasures such as cognac and single-malt Scotch...
Needless to say, I experienced all three several times on that fateful evening of waltz conducting. I returned to my room after the post-waltz party, having walked a stumbling cellist home. At this point I still retained complete control of dexterous and psychological, but alas not intestinal, functions. I lay down in bed to read, hoping that Sir Walter Scott would wear off the Scotch. But the lines of text resembled the scrolling credits of a movie on fast-for-ward...
...Baltimore Waltz" also won an award for technical work, which Stone credited to the extreme complexity of the production...