Word: roasting
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...uninitiated, it is difficult to explain exactly what this rich tradition, started in the early 1980s, is all about. Basically, the show consists of a large-scale, two-hour roast of the physics Faculty, masterminded by second-year graduate students. The “puppet show” is actually a multi-media presentation, involving music, slides, video, crude animations and, of course, puppets, to create sketch comedy pieces involving prominent members of the physics Faculty. Before their roast, Faculty members join other graduate students to hobnob over beer and chips, and then file into Jefferson 250 to await their...
This Scandinavian tradition features good food, high spirits and, most importantly, a roast goose. As the story goes, St. Martina kind, beneficent manwas eyed by the archbishop of France for a promotion. St. Martin, not wanting the profile and responsibilities of an administrator, hid himself amidst a gaggle of geese in hopes of avoiding the archbishop. In the end, the geese, alarmed at St. Martins presence among them, honked and ruined his cover. In remembrance of this, it is customary to mark St. Martins Day by eating a roast goose...
FinkFankFunk has achieved a modest level of success as the campus most notoriously alliterative funk band. Just last weekend it headlined at the Middle East, though many of its gigs remain on the house band for the Dunster goat roast level. Nonetheless, the gentlemen of FFF continue their attempts to live the debauched rock star lifestyle, having purchased a house in which they rehearse, listen to music in a coma-like daze and cavort with females culled from the front row of their shows...
Ariel Sharon sat at the pine dining table in the big kitchen of Sycamore Farm, his sprawling cattle ranch in the Negev Desert, early last week. Dressed in casual khakis and a white shirt with sleeves rolled up, the Israeli Prime Minister dug in to a lunch of roast chicken with a friend who came to visit. The violence of the Aqsa intifadeh had interrupted Sharon's brief vacation, and the conversation turned to the wars that had threatened the country's existence, right back to the 1948 battle to establish the state, when Sharon first saw military action. "This...
...Jimmy Carter adopted a no-frills approach designed to save taxpayer money by catering to an average of $4.50 a plate (by 1977 prices). So Canada's Pierre Trudeau got a simple surf and turf selection of Alaskan crab and roast lamb, while British Prime Minister James Callaghan was given the standard British Sunday lunch menu of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (what, no mushy peas...