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DOWNTOWN JOURNAL; Aura of privilege seasons Locke-Ober.(Editorial)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20020120
Author:Collins, Monica

The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, a notorious profligate, would have beamed her approval. There we were, five women, discussing Millay's wanton lifestyle and her literary genius while sitting under the famed oil painting of "Mademoiselle Yvonne," the female nude at Locke-Ober, the fabled downtown restaurant. Millay, according to a remarkable biography, frisked naked with males and females.

Over the course of the evening, and after getting sauced on JFK's Lobster Stew, we giddily came up with a new phrase for the pop lexicon - "Edna St. Vincent Millayed" to describe ... ah, ...

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