Hints and tips:
...The three-night bash covered most extremes as far as fancy dress was concerned....
...A New Review bash is a “bleak party, a scratch affair, with eye-watering salt and vinegar crisps and inferior wine.”...
...It was George Perry-Smith, at The Hole in the Wall in Bath, who made the first great sidestep in the postwar restaurant scene, inspired Joyce Molyneux at The Carved Angel in Dartmouth and started a movement...
...Perhaps there is something compelling, if crackers, about the way the Joyces, Nivens and Quinn McDonaghs keep meeting in lanes, car parks or encampments to bash each other’s faces to near-bits....
...Although the big, brash Bernstein bash seemed doubly vulgar in tandem with Boulez’s chamber music, Joyce Yang met the keyboard challenge with persuasive finesse and fervour....
...The 21st February Movement, a state youth wing whose sole purpose is to prepare for President Robert Mugabe’s annual birthday festivities, has pulled out all the stops for his 83rd bash....
...In Black Swan Green he takes on the coming-of-age novel, like many distinguished predecessors: Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, more recently Roddy Doyle....
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