Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hear the chants as soon as we leave the elevator. When we walk in, the scene is much more like a WCW wrestling match than a suite common room. Guys in all varieties of dress and blood alcohol levels line the walls and floor, chanting riotously. We have walked into the middle of the "Most Eligible Bachelorette Contest." The ladies dance, sing and are encouraged to strip. Dan Ratner had won the earlier bachelor competition, allegedly baring extensive flesh in the process. When the ladies competition ends (Melissa Coleman, whose "talent" and strategy had been to to cook the food...
...With the #1 bus nowhere in sight, we improvise, crossing the street to Random Hall, an MIT dorm, to visit some friends and try to find a party. As we prepare to enter the dorm, we hear the strains of sirens in the distance. Apparently, the dry ADP party was safe from police, but not from the three fire trucks that arrive on the scene with striking immediacy...
...Though we can hear music and people inside the Adams G suite, and though I had secured an actual invitation to this event while chatting at the Signet, we are forced to knock repeatedly before the door is unlocked for us. Once inside, I instantly pounce on Max Hirsch, the birthday boy, who, though the party seems to be at a subdued level, is anticipating much "busting of asses" on the dance floor. His friend agrees, "The night is but a fetus; I am predicting that later on people will be busting multiple asses...
...head up the maze of the Mather House stairs to the dining hall, and we can hear the Divinyls' "I Touch Myself" crescendoing...
...clad in pajamas. They contemplate what to do for our cameras, and Rochelle Mackey tells me the story of the evening. There had been roughly 25 people, and a high school-style dance--complete with high school-style dancing--had taken place. Tad and Jessica head out as I hear more about the party. Eventually the revelers invite me to stay and watch "Karate Kid" with them. Though seriously tempted, I decline...