When "Promises, Promises" was revived by the Encores! series of concerts in 1997, its leering view of secretaries as disposable playthings seemed uncomfortably quaint, despite a flashy shindig of a production by Rob Marshall.
Nor is there much of a smell of cordite at the opening ceremony, when wives and girlfriends are being shoehorned into green-side stereotypes and the event appears to be a corporate shindig of blazers and smiles.
Two years after London threw a little shindig of its own, the Scottish city was determined to show that while these four-yearly Games might not quite match their Olympic cousins in scale, when it came to its ambition and the warmth of its welcome, Glasgow would not be outdone.
Today, she'll take on the SuperBowl half-time show and by all accounts it's set to be a colorful shindig of epic proportions.
AS THE workers of Latin America celebrated May Day, a select handful of the capitalist class was getting ready for an exclusive shindig of its own.
This pasha-like existence included buying a $6,000 shower curtain, a $15,000 antique umbrella stand and a $2.1 million party that Kozlowski threw for his second wife; a shindig whose heights of sumptuary excess were crowned by an ice sculpture of Michelangelo's David, serving as vodka dispenser with the Russian aqua vita flowing from the statue in a most unorthodox manner.
At the hastily convened "EG8 Summit" in Paris in the Summer of 2011 – a shindig thrown largely as part of President Sarkozy's election campaign – Silva threw a party for UK entrepreneurs at the British Ambassadors residence.
Four years ago, Swaziland staged the so-called "40/40" celebration marking King Mswati's 40th birthday and 40 years of independence - a shindig that cost in excess of $2.5m and drew staunch criticism, particularly from aid donors.
I don't subscribe to the Hank Hill philosophy of fun within strict guidelines, so the idea of a shindig where the organisers "take the sober theme seriously" and "ask punters not to drink (or indulge in any other naughty intoxicants) before heading to the venue" is not something I'd like to indulge in.
