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...temperance movement has even reached that most bibulous of regions, Georgia, where no meal is complete without wine. A group of foreign journalists in Tbilisi was recently toasted with fruit juice, to the disgust of a local official who declared the ban "an insult to the tradition of Georgian hospitality." The new rules appear to be having some effect. With police now on the lookout for drunks, plumbers and carpenters seem less ready to insist on vodka as payment "under the table," which is where they often ended up by midday. "Now they're sober all day," says one Muscovite...
...grand scale. In Anthony Hopkins' brilliant, buoyant realization, he is a comic creation as monstrously beguiling as Tartuffe. He shares with Moliere's sham holy man the gift of ever renewed plausibility. Time and again, just as the audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly unanswerable: If an unfettered press is crucial to a free society, then why have Fleet Street journalists squandered their energies on look-alike rags compounded of crime, cleavage...
...again. What put an end to Prohibition in 1933 was not so much that it was unworkable and unenforceable. According to some historians, it lowered U.S. drinking as much as 50%. A main reason for repeal, write Authors Mark Lender and James Martin in Drinking in America, was "popular disgust with the rigidity of temperance advocates . . . their all or nothing posture...
...Senate. The Democratic measure passed its initial vote, 219 to 206. Republicans tried desperately to supplant it with their Administration-approved compromise, and they almost succeeded. When the final tally showed 215 against to 213 for, Minority Leader Robert Michel slammed the back of a chair in disgust; 14 of his Republicans had defected. Said Michel: "We could have won it on our side...
...meteorologist Rich Heller, describes the prevailing weather patterns. As he patiently explains the day in terms of barometric pressure, cool fronts and zonal flows. I feel my blood rising. Finally, I can stand it no longer. "Spring!" I scream as I throw the phone clear across the room in disgust. "Spring!" I scream as my roommate sleepily pokes her head from she bedroom. Still raving, I run from the room. In the distance a neutral voice repeats again and again: "Have a good day, and thank you for calling...