Word: drank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While rugby wouldn't be rugby without the beer, around the lighted field vast numbers of URI fraternity members drank furiously as the Crimson and the Rams made thirsty...
Gradually Guy drank more and more. Lily would go with him to the neighborhood bars, where he would make her sing. He was proud of her, constantly encouraging her to "show out" and display her flair for the dramatic...
...liked for going to church; Billy calls it "hypocritical" and makes an appearance only when his children are baptized. The President pledged himself always to tell the truth; his brother says he's "not the Carter that doesn't tell a lie." Liquor is banned at state dinners; Billy drank it from the bottle at the Inauguration. In a very convenient way he represents everything his brother could not be as a candidate or as president but which is popular anyway. In terms of image, the whole thing is a bit too neat--the moral issues on which the President...
Another sequence takes place in a nightclub lighted by naked bulbs. Here marcelled flappers dance with their tuxedoed escorts. They are the last few who have hard currency from other countries. "They drank fast, danced fast and made love fast," Bergman told the extras, "so have a merry time...
...biography accurately describes Les Fleurs du Mai as an "anatomy of addiction"-of men and women hooked on drugs, alcohol and every variation of sex. Baudelaire himself drank to the brink of alcoholism and took 150 drops a day of laudanum-twice the dose fatal to a nonaddict. Yet the drug Baudelaire was most addicted to was hope: luxe, calme et volupté-the elegance of Islamic paradise, a Christian's heavenly peace and a pagan bliss of the senses. Baudelaire chanted of this blessed trinity while he suffered the diseases of the age: poverty, rage and soul-withering...