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Perhaps as the song continues, the camera could follow a group of young hipsters going in and out of bars, clubs, house-parties, looking to hook up, do a ton of drugs, and appear as apathetic as possible.
Top 10 Songs That Should Be Used in a Movie » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Islands, still tight of tongue, Alice Akana was mistress of the hula house, manageress of the dancing girls who hula'd for royalty, for luaus (feasts), house-parties, poi suppers, and curious tourists.
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Formally, Ayesha would submit to the tradition of purdah when she married Jai; beyond the state boundaries, however, she would be allowed to join the house-parties and shooting expeditions Ayesha was herself an excellent shot, to travel around Europe, to dance in nightclubs: to behave, in short, as her pioneering mother, Indira, had done before her.
Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009
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Thus, all the top-down information-gathering the Obama rump organization in Chicago is now doing -- online surveys, conference calls with field organizers, house-parties this weekend -- make sense from their perspective.
LiveBlogging from Berkman: Organizing in an Age of Surplus Powerfulness 2008
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Let California Ring aims to encourage a million conversations throughout the state (and I'd like to see millions more throughout the country) -- at house-parties, around office water-coolers (do many offices still have those?), and across dinner tables.
Evan Wolfson: Let California Ring: Talking About Change Makes It 2008
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Thus, all the top-down information-gathering the Obama rump organization in Chicago is now doing -- online surveys, conference calls with field organizers, house-parties this weekend -- make sense from their perspective.
LiveBlogging from Berkman: Organizing in an Age of Surplus Powerfulness Sifry, Micah L. 2008
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At first glance this may not seem to be a big deal, but up until now MoveOn has mostly done "one-off" kinds of local meetings, organizing thousands of house-parties, but not nurturing the institutionalization of continuing connections between MoveOn members in a local area.
MoveOn Going Local 2005
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At first glance this may not seem to be a big deal, but up until now MoveOn has mostly done "one-off" kinds of local meetings, organizing thousands of house-parties, but not nurturing the institutionalization of continuing connections between MoveOn members in a local area.
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It was no place for house-parties, and scarcely for week-end visits, or even for neighborhood dinners.
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Mrs. Hand began to give house-parties, teas, musicales, and receptions on a lavish scale.
The Titan 2004
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