bacchanal

Another time he advised a prop guy to think of a bacchanal while setting Kate’s breakfast table.

Their rollicking redo, set from dusk to hangover at a drunken bacchanal, is vibrant and viciously alive.

There were stories of wild bacchanals involving nudists, and grand parties attended by the likes of artist Andy Warhol, jazz musician Charlie Parker and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman.

As I write this essay, the mainstream news media has already, for the most part, moved on from Trump’s fantasy and threats of a bacchanal of violence.

But, in a stroke of political savvy, Harrison leaned into the image, campaigning from town to town in a kind of roving bacchanal.