Word: drank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most subjects of biographies, Parker would be considerably less interesting if she had led a happier life. The woman who had everything -- appeal, style, brains, celebrity and that deadly wit -- also drank to excess for decades, repeatedly attempted suicide, spent her declining years in the noisome atmosphere generated by adamantly unhousebroken dogs, and was cremated in a party dress Gloria Vanderbilt had given her as an act of charity. Leslie Frewin's The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker revisits this pith and pathos more grandiloquently but less methodically than John Keats' 1970 volume You Might As Well Live, on which...
Gelber is not big on stability. He took two years off after high school and hitchhiked across America. After sophomore year here the Dudley House resident took off another two years to live in Italy where "I mostly drank and read books you're not allowed to read at Harvard." In Italy "I spent everything I had ever saved and borrowed some...
...found that women consuming more than one drink of an alcoholic beverage per day experienced an approximately 50 percent increased risk of breast cancer compared with women who drank occasionally or not at all," said Dr. Walter C. Willett, head author of the report and associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health...
...young set drank and danced to loud rock music until 1 a.m. "There was always a lot of booze," recalls a former American nanny. "People got more and more rowdy as the night progressed. You'd see couples sprawled all over the couches, and others would head off into the Marines' rooms." She claimed that even a Marine noncom leader joined in the "Animal House" carousing. "When you see your boss getting dead drunk and going around pinching women, it doesn't make for a very strict atmosphere...
...Enough? Perhaps it was Susann's unique amalgam of poignancy and chutzpah. Her pores were too big to pass a screen test, she could not sing or dance, she was too short to be a model and, after 25 years of trying, she was nowhere as an actress. She drank heavily and was addicted to pills, and her autistic son had to be institutionalized. When cancer struck, she made a pact with God: "If He would give her twelve more years to prove herself the best-selling authoress in the world, she would settle for that...