Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firing Kalashnikov automatic rifles, machine guns and even a few grenade launchers. By a miracle, only two people were accidentally wounded. Caravans of cars drove through the dark wet streets, horns blaring. A few people danced in the roadways, obviously having ignored Machel's repeated denunciations of "demon alcohol...
...Beverly Hills. Deborah likes stuffed animals, and Michael, who is also a record producer, insists that no mention of hard drugs be made in any of the songs he produces. Deborah, too, has firm ideas. In Enough, she played January, the chick who matures with the help of alcohol and drugs, but she modified the role to a more normal adolescence. She also objects to nudity in films: "It violates my privacy." That stand prompted Co-Star Kirk Douglas to ostracize her on the set. He accused her of being frigid. "It seems funny now," says Deborah...
Hecht opened the deliveries with a humorous poem that purported to be an alcohol-inspired vision of a Hollywood production of the Bicentennial, casting Groucho Mars as P.T. Barnum...
...desperate, so they let me in a couple that was going straight to Chicago I didn't learn that the driver had been speeding for two days--ever since he'd left L.A.--until he had his third or fourth Coors from a cooler in the back seat. The alcohol must have kept him on the fine line between too much speed and not enough sleep. But after a couple of swerves onto the shoulder I said that I would drive...
Thus, the organizers see the PBC's 1975 "Town Meeting" and anti-Ford demonstration at Concord as an important success. Nyhart complained about the media coverage, saying that most reporters went and saw some young people, some alcohol and drugs, and some rain and thought. "Aha! Woodstock." Nyhart objects on two counts. Even if the people who came to Concord were mostly young, that doesn't mean they don't work or aren't looking for work. More importantly for the organization though, is that "say 50,000 people showed up there and say even as many...