Word: draughted
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...this giddy and gruesome camp-out on the bones of Bram Stoker, Count Dracula (Udo Kier) is a vegetarian, fussy about his daily diet, and dying for a heartening draught of blood from an unspoiled young woman. Anton, the count's assistant, insists on classifying young ladies of this type as "wirgins," in his Carpathian accent. The count's homeland being fresh out of them, Anton suggests moving to Italy, where the influence of "Holy Mother Church" promises countless young maidens...
...affair served to confirm all the worst suspicions about the CIA and its exaggerated image as a vast conspiracy. Reaction abroad ranged from incredulity to dismay. The London Times called the revelations "a bitter draught" for those who regard the U.S. as "sometimes clumsy, often misunderstood, but fundamentally honorable in its conduct of international affairs." West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung predicted that "the disconcerting naiveté with which President Ford enunciated his secret service philosophy" would have a "provocative" effect...
...Spain, we can do like Hemingway and sit in a hotel room and bang away on a typewriter, constructing on paper a character who partakes in a struggle we ourselves are not part of. Or, naive college students, we can travel to Spain in an effort to take a draught of an elusive, transmogrifying elixir. In one case our hero is killed, in the other we lose our pants. Yet, in spite of ourselves, the dreams continue, and, as the end of the Franco era hastens, we catch the stronger strains of a guitar and glimpse smiles on the faces...
...carriage and visage, mistakes movement for animation. Stephen Zinsser and Dennis Clearly, the two lovers, are both adequate to their tasks. They are languidly effete, though Zinsser is perhaps too effeminately so. And both appear to be enjoying themselves thoroughly. Sweeping onto the stage like a cold draught of air, Mary Ennis as Gwendolyn's imposing mother rivals her daughter's haughty demeanor. The actors taking the smaller parts, who vary in quality, all face the uninspiring task of being tasteless foils to the spicier coterie of leading characters...
Offensively, Seddon hasn't decided the batting order yet. He is, however, worried about the hitting. "We've been in an awful draught since returning from Florida," he said. "We hit .280 down there and only .190 up here. Fortunately the pitching carried us through four games when we got only 15 hits...