Word: bourbonized
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...residents had no choice but to leave and take jobs elsewhere. But across the condemned city last week, there were moments of fleeting defiance, staged by those unable to imagine life outside the Big Easy--or perhaps unwilling to ponder the possibility that it might not come back. On Bourbon Street in the French Quarter last week, slightly sauced survivors sat on the bar stools of Johnny White's, a tavern they say has never closed in its 14-year history. "Why are they making us leave? Did they evacuate Iraq?" asks Greg Rogers, known as Squirrel. "Why didn...
...Bourbon Street may have been the stuff of New Orleans lore, a symbol of the city’s quirky decadence, a neon-lit mecca of shellfish, booze, and parties. But for the Big Easy’s poor, the city’s streets—far from Bourbon’s bar scene—bore a more gritty reality...
...crisis peels away the veil that often covers the inequities in a society. And that’s what this hurricane has done. It’s peeled away the screen that hid the poverty of the ninth ward from people who went down on spring break to Bourbon Street,” said University of Michigan Professor of History and Professor of Law Rebecca Scott...
...girl was the little sister of Nigia Lovechild, 20, who had waited out Hurricane Katrina with 11 other family members in a New Orleans apartment atop Chris Owens Club, a Bourbon Street restaurant where her mother and father both work...
...just for the hell of it, there was this old boy who was not brain damaged so much as he was impetuous and romantic, the sort of fellow who, but for the grace of poor vision and ten thumbs, a trick knee and an unhealthy dependence on bonded bourbon, might have made a fighter pilot. Lately he has been captivated and obsessed by some of the slickest ads in print, the ones depicting the F-20 Tigershark poised on a liquid mirror out in the Mojave Desert. What is it about this bird, he wonders, that has caused...