Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children came. Before the royal duties and stately protocols began weighing as heavily as maternal pounds around the hips. Before the couple's enforced separations, then separations by choice: Fergie's impulsive flyaways to Alpine ski slopes and Mediterranean beaches, parties with dubious friends and displays of desperate merriment. Before Andrew began to slam her pals as "poncey philistines," and she to knock his sometimes boorish behavior as "terribly gauche...
...Show beginning next May, Johnny Carson confides to his audience, "I want to tell young Jay Leno I've changed my mind; I'm gonna stay." And then Carson, the program's star since Jack Kennedy was President, barks out his brittle laugh and purports to lose himself in merriment...
...sometimes forget that besides providing merriment for us yokels, show business performs an even more valuable social function. It provides livelihoods and a home for thousands of certifiable lunatics. The savings to our overburdened health-care system are simply incalculable...
...crusade continues nonetheless. Kirkpatrick Sale kicked off the anticelebration with his anti-Columbus tome, The Conquest of Paradise. The group Encounter plans to celebrate 1992 by sailing three ships full of Indians to "discover" Spain. Similar merriment is to be expected wherever a quorum gathers to honor...
...trying to be the Grinch who stole Saint Patrick's Day. I encourage the commemoration of this holiday with merriment...