Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stolid Dutch burghers wanted genre scenes, not Biblical pageantry. Terbrugghen did his requisite of martyrs and evangelists, but it is his fleshly sinners that were his daily bread. In 17th century Holland, where drinking, smoking, gambling, even lute playing were castigated, the artist's twaddling codgers, topless prostitutes and...
But what about The Kid Himself? Wolfe is 34 and the dirty golden thatch is beginning to recede. Speaking about some older writers on the Trib, he says, "They say those guys get paid off, but that's not it. They're old. They lose perspective. They get strangled synapses...
Researchers who worked on the story (Dorothea Bourne, Raissa Silverman and Linda Young) moved through the New York City pattern -with Raissa's evening reflecting the spirit that animated New Yorkers during the blackout. She had invited four friends to dinner at her tenth-floor apartment. When darkness hit...
After listing such names as "Air Force Diet," "Astronaut Diet," "Airlines Pilot Diet," "Grapefruit Diet," "Low Carbohydrate Diet" and "Drinking Man's Diet," Dr. Hoffman said: "I would like to take this opportunity to specifically disclaim any association with or responsibility by the Mayo Clinic for any of them...
The natives, who had been drinking heavily, thought the researchers were government officials who had come to take their land away. They ripped right through the tent in which the Paynters were sleeping.