Word: gras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where else to go but Mardi Gras...
...that would be the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the mother of all Fat Tuesday celebrations. The ancient, non-p.c., tradition-ridden Carnival, where beads fly and alcohol flows and people try not to remember what they did last night...
This wasn't my first Mardi Gras--I went last year for about a week and enjoyed myself thoroughly. But my trip last year was practically last-minute, coming in the form of a Christmas gift. Afterwards, though, I knew I had to return for another Mardi Gras, come hell or high water or classes or Crimson...
...influential floats. Its king was Jean-Claude Van Damme--who earned my eternal good will be, at one point, dumping most of a box of doubloons on my section of the crowd. I sat on the shoulders of random men and screamed "Throw me somethin', mister!--the classic Mardi Gras...
...Harvard men's hockey team, it came yesterday after a rather Lean Monday. No celebrating on this Mardi Gras--just a day off from practice for the team to collect its wits and get ready for a weekend trip to Dartmouth and Vermont...