And yet, the occasions for wearing a suit, for dressing to impress--the interviews, awards ceremonies and banquets, times when your sneakers and jeans will be inappropriate--will require a tie.
Mr. Scholl has been doing this program, titled "A Musicall Banquet," for some time, and it showed.
New York's ban takes effect in July 2014, which should give restaurants and banquet halls enough time to use up their stockpiles of fins, which are dried and bleached for sale.
A few months ago, the Boathouse switched to a full-time banquet staff.
Economic conditions had been irreversibly altered by conquest; the magnitude of conspicuous consumption is suggested by a senatorial decree of 161 that restricted the weight of silver tableware in a banquet to 100 pounds—10 times the weight for which Publius Cornelius Rufinus was punished in 275.
"We saw it happen almost overnight," she said, describing programs that sprang up in sites like former auto-shops and part-time banquet halls in neighborhoods like Brighton Beach and Manhattan's Chinatown, siphoning off low-income immigrant seniors from regular senior centers, "and basically stealing Medicaid dollars to do it".
He wore white football shoes when everyone else wore black; grew a Fu Manchu mustache when doing so was considered nearly a danger to society; wore love beads and medallions and pink silk shirts; got a full-length mink coat; and went stockingless in a tuxedo to a big-time banquet.
For the second time, the banquet of London mayoral choice is effectively between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone.
An amateur researcher recently decided that the Time 100 banquet — champagne, lamb chops, "the most influential people in the world" — held the other night at Jazz at Lincoln Center, would be the perfect occasion for a copycat experiment.
A Wagner rarity for male choir and orchestra, "Das Liebesmahl der Apostel" ("The Apostles' Banquet") from around the time Wagner was working on "Tannhäuser" in 1843, sat uncomfortably between the Mendelssohn and Liszt works.
