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...while some matches reunited for additional conversation, many just attacked the ample display of Finale's desserts and departed for additional Friday night merriment...

Author: By Agnes K. Sibilski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Race to Find a Valentine | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

...acute television binge, I happened upon a trailer insipid enough to jolt me out of my Jersey Shore stupor. The movie in question: The Bounty Hunter, starring Gerald Butler in the eponymous role as a vindictive, muscled man who violently kidnaps his ex-wife with all the sadistic merriment audiences have come to expect from the former King of Sparta. The trailer, in which a stiletto-clad Jennifer Aniston is stuffed in a trunk, handcuffed to a bed, and tackled, has such an air of comic exuberance that one almost expects to hear a laugh track looping in the background...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Bruised Bodies, Silver Screens | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...mail, Bloom said, serves to encourage students to participate in the general mirth and merriment of the holidays...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are You My Super Sexy Secret Secular Santa? Oh My! | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...merriment of the week doesn’t tire everyone out, Kirklanders will conclude with the annual Holiday Dinner and Dance, less formally known as “Incestfest.” Bringing out-of-house lovers? Highly discouraged. Making out with that house crush you’ve had your eye on? Highly encouraged...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kirkland Secret Santa Week Rages Forth | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

...most lavish ticker-tape parade in history. Revelers celebrating the Allied victory over Japan filled the air with cloth, feathers, hat trimmings, paper and confetti. On Aug. 14, 1945, 3,000 street sweepers worked through the night to clean it up, only to have their efforts undone when the merriment continued the next morning. All told, merrymakers flung 5,438 tons of material on New York City's streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticker-Tape Parades | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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