Science’s Oscars
The heirs of the inventor of dynamite certainly know how to throw a party
STRETCH limos are more usually associated with the excesses of Hollywood than the dignified restraint of Stockholm. And it is surely pure Tinseltown to devote most of an evening's television to a dinner attended by 1,270 guests to celebrate the awards they have just given each other. As for the idea that the winners of those awards should be greeted in bed a few days later by girls dressed in white shifts and with candles on their heads, even Heidi Fleiss might have drawn the line at that.
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