Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given that history, it is no surprise that the entertainer has had difficulties with women. In 1949 he married Jody Wolcott, with whom he had three sons. Carson started to enjoy modest success as a West Coast comedian. But in the late '50s he began to drink excessively, and there were several instances of physical abuse. "He could have accidentally killed me and not have known about it until the next morning," Jody recalls. When Carson's career pointed him to New York City, the couple tried to reconcile. But Jody saw ominous signs: "When we were unpacking, I found...
...modern life. Under the heading of "Rebuffs," he notes that "at one time the 'cut direct' was delivered by looking right at a person and not acknowledging his acquaintance or even his existence. This is no longer done. It has been replaced by the lawsuit." The subject of drinking inspires a classic paradox: "Never refuse wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic...
...didn't drink, and she didn't have boyfriends," he says, explaining that while assimilating remarkably well into American culture, the young Bhutto retained the self-discipline and customs of her Islamic heritage...
Answers to this means of inquisition are usually trite and pat, such as horror stories on state college campuses about pledgees who are forced to drink themselves to death, or who fall out of franternity-house second-story windows. The administration then concludes that it will not support putting its students at such risks, and Greek organizations are thus denied recognition...
...Here you can do as you diddly darn," says Gerry Bloomquist, 65, a retired dress-shop keeper from Minnesota who is wintering in the outskirts of Quartzsite, Ariz. She sips a drink, relaxing in front of her 33-ft. Holiday Monitor recreation vehicle, or RV, in a lawn chair set on a piece of Astroturf. "My grass," she calls it. While the sun, rattlesnakes and tarantulas bed down, Bloomquist and tens of thousands of other tanned retirees enjoy another happy hour parked out in the desert, gazing at the mountains, puttering around their mobile homes, filling hummingbird feeders, thriftily sidestepping...