Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condone-or tax -smuggled booze. For the first time, convictions are being vigorously sought and obtained against purveyors of illegal liquor, and moonshine-which many Southerners prefer to the aged, taxed variety-is no longer so easy to buy. Biggest gainer is the state government, which expects to see alcohol revenues' jump from $4,500,000 a year to more than $10 million...
...criminals; but the artist was found blameless, and he rushed back to Paris. He is still exuberant, worked ten hours a day on his Reims chapel for the champagne growers. But he did not indulge in their product. Says he dryly: "I never touch a drop of alcohol...
...unpopularity with "prophets of doom" in the press, the President crowed: "I always get refreshed and I gain strength from going out to see the people without going through middlemen." Pursuing the issue, he told about "Uncle Ezra," who was once advised by a doctor to give up alcohol in order to improve his hearing. Asked some time later if he had followed the physician's advice, Ezra said no, explaining: "I like what I drink so much better than what I hear." As for himself, declared L.B.J., "I like what I see and what I hear so much...
...nightclubs of the bourgeois world have nothing in common with development of the intellect. They are, as a rule, steeped in sex, alcohol and gambling...
...parody of life. Tobias (Hume Cronyn) looks like a pair of rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...