Word: bacchanalian
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Much of Spark's subtle irony is converted to heavy-handed attempts at humor. Mocking the pretentious religiosity of the nuns, Enders portrays them as hard-drinking, smoking, and cursing women. Life in the convent is by no means bacchanalian, but Jackson still insists on drinking Chateau Lafitte Rothschild to excess. And Enders assumes that it is inherently amusing to show nuns talking about "screwing" their enemies as well as the neighborhood Jesuit priests. Instead of mordant commentary, Enders employs cheap shots...
...from Georgia, Claire Hodgson was unimpressed when she first met Ruth in 1923. "His face and his stomach were fat, his legs like a chorus girl's," she wrote in her 1959 memoir The Babe and I. As his second wife, she helped curb the Bambino's bacchanalian excesses during their 19-year marriage. After his death, she became the custodian of his legend. Though the Babe's home-run records (60 in a season, 714 in his career) were surpassed, she maintained, rightly, that "everyone will remember the Babe as the first...
...Sure," Rosenthal said, "Use it all." Putting his arm around me with bacchanalian warmth, he graciously invited me to "Come down to the Times...
...Harvard parties is finding yourself dancing ferociously with someone whose usually upright demeanor only prompts idle fantasy. The room was--except for the intervals when 72 churning legs had been disappointed by burntout equipment (and the hosts had scrambled into the boiler room to bring back the music)--a Bacchanalian sink...
Alumni also save their biggest Bacchanalian feasts for this game. Maybe it's the warm weather, but there are usually more tail-gating parties for Dartmouth than for any other game. And the orgiastic fervor of the Harvard alumni is more than matched by their Dartmouth counterparts. The Big Green legions will be there Saturday, all in green jackets with Dartmouth pennants tied to their car atennae, all getting incredibly drunk. I remember one guy who seemed to be near us every year next to Newell Boathouse, and I swear half of his party were too loaded to make...